Narco Wars (2020)

Season 1

Narco Wars explores how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power to destabilize and tear apart whole countries. The series combines gripping access to cartel members and the law enforcement agencies opposing them with a deep dive documentary exploration of the geo-political, social and cultural factors that led the cartels' rise.

Released Dec. 9, 2020 Episode 49 min 14+

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

Keywords: tmdb.drug-trafficking, tmdb.drug-cartel, tmdb.social-documentary, tmdb.latin-america, imdb.american-politics, imdb.american-imperialism, imdb.drug-trade + 30 more, imdb.narco, imdb.drug-trafficking, imdb.drug-smuggling, imdb.drug-cartel, imdb.drug-lord, imdb.drug-kingpin, imdb.drug-trafficker, imdb.organized-crime, imdb.narcotic-smuggling, imdb.drug-ring, imdb.drug, imdb.narcotic, imdb.drug-dealer, imdb.major-drug-dealer, imdb.drug-use, imdb.war-on-drugs, imdb.drug-war, imdb.criminal, imdb.violence, imdb.murder, imdb.underworld, imdb.criminal-underworld, imdb.illegal-drug-trade, imdb.drug-baron, imdb.narcotics-trade, imdb.illegal-activities, imdb.narcotics-ring, imdb.drug-crime, imdb.criminal-underbelly, imdb.underbelly

Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Production Companies: Wall to Wall

Network: National Geographic

Country: France
Languages: English, French

IMDb

8.4

/379/

Trakt

/33/

TMDb

/7/

S1E1 - How Cocaine Came to America

Despite $1 trillion spent on enforcement and 2.5 million death toll, more illegal drugs are being produced, trafficked, and consumed than ever before. Featuring interviews and action filmed with key players on both sides of the law, this 10 part series will examine the drug wars - both past and present - to explain why.

Dec. 9, 2020, midnight

S1E2 - Mexicos First Cartel

How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.

Dec. 16, 2020, midnight

S1E3 - The Battle for the Border

El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

Dec. 23, 2020, midnight

S1E4 - Escobar's Empire

Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.

Dec. 30, 2020, midnight

S1E5 - Escobar Goes to War

Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

Jan. 6, 2021, midnight

S1E6 - Rise of the Narco Army

One drug lord uses millions of drug dollars to bribe soldiers to desert the army to form The Zetas, the most feared cartel in Mexico’s history.

Jan. 20, 2021, midnight

S1E7 - After Pablo

Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.

Jan. 27, 2021, midnight

S1E8 - Narco Cult

Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

Feb. 3, 2021, midnight

S1E9 - Chapo Public Enemy No. 1

The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.

Feb. 10, 2021, midnight

S1E10 - The Last Don

In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking

Feb. 17, 2021, midnight

Network: National Geographic

Episode Runtime: 49 min.

Season Runtime: 1080 min.

Released: Dec. 9, 2020

Last Air Date: Sept. 7, 2022, midnight

Status: Returning Series

Certification: TV-14 / 14+

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