8.7/1029 votesLoading...#1 - Chapo Public Enemy No. 1
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/10/2021
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.
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8.4/1033 votesLoading...#2 - Escobar's Empire
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/30/2020
Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.
Director: N/A
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8.4/1035 votesLoading...#3 - Escobar Goes to War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/6/2021
Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.
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8.4/1027 votesLoading...#4 - Narco Cult
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/3/2021
Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.
Director: N/A
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8.3/1030 votesLoading...#5 - Rise of the Narco Army
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/20/2021
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.
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8.2/1027 votesLoading...#6 - After Pablo
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/27/2021
Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.
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8.2/1018 votesLoading...#7 - The Mob: The Heroin Don
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 5/26/2021
Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the United States. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way…
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8.1/1016 votesLoading...#8 - The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 6/9/2021
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'.
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8.1/1014 votesLoading...#9 - The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 6/30/2021
The Rizzutos were one of the longest ruling dynasties in Mafia history. They built a multibillion dollar cocaine empire that spanned two continents.
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8.0/1043 votesLoading...#10 - How Cocaine Came to America
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/9/2020
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.
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8.0/1037 votesLoading...#11 - Mexicos First Cartel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/16/2020
How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.
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8.0/1036 votesLoading...#12 - The Battle for the Border
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/23/2020
El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.
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7.9/1013 votesLoading...#13 - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 6/23/2021
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…
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7.8/1025 votesLoading...#14 - The Last Don
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/17/2021
In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking
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7.7/1014 votesLoading...#15 - The Mob: How E Busted the Bull
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 6/16/2021
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.
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7.0/1015 votesLoading...#16 - The Mob: The Mafia Meth King
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/2/2021
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/3/2022
In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Prince of Death
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/10/2022
Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - The Mob and the Mujahideen
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/17/2022
The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Narco Jihad
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/24/2022
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Pain Pill Nation
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/2022
Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Opioid Apocalypse
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/7/2022
How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG
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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!
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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:National Geographic
Best Episodes Summary
"Chapo Public Enemy No. 1" is the best rated episode of "Narco Wars". It scored 8.7/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/10/2021. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Escobar's Empire".