The BEST episodes of Narco Wars season 1

Every episode of Narco Wars season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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.

Last Updated: 12/15/2024Network: National GeographicStatus: Continuing

7.57

70 votes

#1 - How Cocaine Came to America

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/9/2020

A look at how criminals formed the Medellin Cartel and pioneered cocaine smuggling in the 70s and 80s.

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7.56

54 votes

#2 - 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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7.28

29 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Gordon Mason

Writer: Gordon Mason

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7.18

28 votes

#4 - 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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7.15

40 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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7.15

54 votes

#6 - Mexico's First Cartel

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/16/2020

A look at how a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico's first-ever drug Cartel.

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7.13

45 votes

#7 - 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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7.13

30 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Gordon Mason

Writer: Gordon Mason

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6.97

33 votes

#9 - 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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6.61

33 votes

#10 - 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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