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The Best Episodes of Narco Wars

Every episode of Narco Wars ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Narco Wars!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 9 - Chapo Public Enemy No. 1
    8.8/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Chapo Public Enemy No. 1

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 5 - Escobar Goes to War
    8.5/10(35 votes)

    #2 - Escobar Goes to War

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 8 - Narco Cult
    8.5/10(27 votes)

    #3 - Narco Cult

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 4 - Escobar's Empire
    8.4/10(33 votes)

    #4 - Escobar's Empire

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Narco Wars Season 2 Episode 1 - The Mob: The Heroin Don
    8.4/10(19 votes)

    #5 - The Mob: The Heroin Don

    S2:E1

    Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the United States. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way…

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 6 - Rise of the Narco Army
    8.3/10(31 votes)

    #6 - Rise of the Narco Army

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 7 - After Pablo
    8.2/10(27 votes)

    #7 - After Pablo

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Narco Wars Season 2 Episode 3 - The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #8 - The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don

    S2:E3

    In 1980s New York, John Gotti kills the boss of the Gambino Crime Family to protect his drugs empire, breaking the Mafia’s most sacred rules and becoming the infamous ‘Teflon Don'.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Narco Wars Season 2 Episode 5 - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #9 - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia

    S2:E5

    Henry Hill was just a low-level Mob associate. But his 1980 arrest for drug dealing brings about the downfall of the Mafia’s wealthiest crew…

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Narco Wars Season 2 Episode 6 - The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #10 - The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather

    S2:E6

    The Rizzutos were one of the longest ruling dynasties in Mafia history. They built a multibillion dollar cocaine empire that spanned two continents.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 1 - How Cocaine Came to America
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #11 - How Cocaine Came to America

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 3 - The Battle for the Border
    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #12 - The Battle for the Border

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 2 - Mexicos First Cartel
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #13 - Mexicos First Cartel

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Narco Wars Season 2 Episode 4 - The Mob: How E Busted the Bull
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #14 - The Mob: How E Busted the Bull

    S2:E4

    Sammy The Bull attempts to go straight in Arizona, but gets sucked into a major ecstasy-dealing ring after his kids get a taste for raving.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Narco Wars Season 1 Episode 10 - The Last Don
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #15 - The Last Don

    S1:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Narco Wars Season 2 Episode 2 - The Mob: The Mafia Meth King
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #16 - The Mob: The Mafia Meth King

    S2:E2

    The rise and fall of Philadelphia mobster Long John Martorano, who built a meth empire worth $500 million; told for the first time by those closest to him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Narco Wars Season 3 Episode 1 - How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem

    S3:E1

    In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Narco Wars Season 3 Episode 2 - Prince of Death
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Prince of Death

    S3:E2

    Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Narco Wars Season 3 Episode 3 - The Mob and the Mujahideen
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Mob and the Mujahideen

    S3:E3

    The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Narco Wars Season 3 Episode 4 - Narco Jihad
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Narco Jihad

    S3:E4

    DEA agent Jeff Higgins sets out to avenge 9/11 by taking on an Afghan heroin kingpin and proving the close link between narcotics and terrorism.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Narco Wars Season 3 Episode 5 - Pain Pill Nation
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Pain Pill Nation

    S3:E5

    Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Narco Wars Season 3 Episode 6 - Opioid Apocalypse
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Opioid Apocalypse

    S3:E6

    How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Chapo Public Enemy No. 1" is the best rated episode of "Narco Wars". It scored 8.8/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/10/2021. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Escobar Goes to War".