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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

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".

  • Chapo Public Enemy No. 1
    8.7/1029 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Escobar's Empire
    8.4/1033 votes
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • Escobar Goes to War
    8.4/1035 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Narco Cult
    8.4/1027 votes
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • Rise of the Narco Army
    8.3/1030 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • After Pablo
    8.2/1027 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob: The Heroin Don
    8.2/1018 votes
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    #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…

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don
    8.1/1016 votes
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    #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'.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather
    8.1/1014 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • How Cocaine Came to America
    8.0/1043 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mexicos First Cartel
    8.0/1037 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Battle for the Border
    8.0/1036 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Last Don
    7.9/1024 votes
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    #13 - 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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia
    7.9/1013 votes
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    #14 - 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…

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob: How E Busted the Bull
    7.7/1014 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob: The Mafia Meth King
    7.0/1015 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Episode 7
    NaN/100 votes
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    #17 - Episode 7

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 7/7/2021

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Episode 8
    NaN/100 votes
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    #18 - Episode 8

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 7/14/2021

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Prince of Death
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mob and the Mujahideen
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Narco Jihad
    NaN/100 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pain Pill Nation
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Opioid Apocalypse
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    #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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A