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Frontline•Season 13•Episode 9

The Godfather of Cocaine

Feb 14, 199557 min

FRONTLINE travels to Colombia for an investigative biography of the rise and fall of the richest and most violent cocaine drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Before Colombian police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency hunted him down and killed him, Escobar built an estimated $4 billion

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Season 13 Episodes19

School Colors

Is This Any Way to Run a Government?

Hot Money

How to Steal $500 Million

Hillary's Class still

Hillary's Class

The Nicotine War

Does TV Kill?

What Happened to Bill Clinton?

The Godfather of Cocaine

The Begging Game

Rush Limbaugh's America

Divided Memories (1)

Divided Memories (2)

The Homecoming

When the Bough Breaks

The Vanishing Father

The Confessions of Rosa Lee

Welcome to Happy Valley

Currents of Fear

Cast1

Will Lyman

Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Episode Summary

"The Godfather of Cocaine" is episode 9 of Frontline season 13. It aired on February 14, 1995.

Next: E10 · The Begging Game Best of Season 13