The Best Episodes of Narco Wars Season 1
Every episode of Narco Wars Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Narco Wars 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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Narco Wars" season 1 is "How Cocaine Came to America", rated 8/10 from 43 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "How Cocaine Came to America" aired on 12/9/2020 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Mexicos First Cartel".
8.0/10 43 votes#1 - 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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8.0/10 37 votes#2 - 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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8.0/10 36 votes#3 - 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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8.4/10 33 votes#4 - 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.
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8.4/10 35 votes#5 - 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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8.3/10 29 votes#6 - 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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8.2/10 27 votes#7 - 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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8.4/10 27 votes#8 - 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.
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8.7/10 29 votes#9 - 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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7.9/10 24 votes#10 - 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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