The BEST episodes of Narco Wars
Every episode of Narco Wars ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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 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.
#1 - Chasing the Dragon: 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.
#5 - 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…
#6 - 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.’
#7 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#15 - Chasing the Dragon: 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.
#16 - Chasing the Dragon: 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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…
#21 - Chasing the Dragon: Pain Pill Nation
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/31/2022
Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
#22 - Chasing the Dragon: Opioid Apocalypse
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/2022
How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG.