8.0/1043 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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8.0/1037 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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8.0/1036 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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8.4/1033 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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8.4/1035 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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8.3/1030 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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8.2/1027 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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8.4/1027 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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8.7/1029 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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7.8/1025 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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The Best Episodes of Narco Wars Season 1
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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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:National Geographic
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"How Cocaine Came to America" is the best rated episode of "Narco Wars" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/9/2020. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Mexicos First Cartel".