What are the best episodes of Narco Wars?

The best rated episodes of Narco Wars are: How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem - S3E1 rated 7.6, The Battle for the Border - S1E3 rated 7.6, How Cocaine Came to America - S1E1 rated 7.5, Prince of Death - S3E2 rated 7.4, The Mob: The Heroin Don - S2E1 rated 7.4, The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don - S2E3 rated 7.3, Narco Cult - S1E8 rated 7.3

What are the worst episodes of Narco Wars?

The lowest rated episodes of Narco Wars are: Pain Pill Nation - S3E5 rated 6.5, Opioid Apocalypse - S3E6 rated 6.5, Rise of the Narco Army - S1E6 rated 6.6, The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia - S2E5 rated 6.8, The Mob: How E Busted the Bull - S2E4 rated 6.8, Narco Jihad - S3E4 rated 6.9, The Mob and the Mujahideen - S3E3 rated 6.9

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Name: Narco Wars
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-12-09
Rating: 6.3

Dec 2020 - present

6.6

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Best Episodes of Narco Wars

How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
S3 Ep1
7.6
3rd Aug 2022
In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.
The Battle for the Border
S1 Ep3
7.6
23rd Dec 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.
How Cocaine Came to America
S1 Ep1
7.5
9th Dec 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.
Prince of Death
S3 Ep2
7.4
10th Aug 2022
Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.
The Mob: The Heroin Don
S2 Ep1
7.4
26th May 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…
The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don
S2 Ep3
7.3
9th Jun 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'.
Narco Cult
S1 Ep8
7.3
3rd Feb 2021
Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

Worst Episodes of Narco Wars

Pain Pill Nation
S3 Ep5
6.5
7th Sep 2022
Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
Opioid Apocalypse
S3 Ep6
6.5
7th Sep 2022
How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG
Rise of the Narco Army
S1 Ep6
6.6
20th Jan 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.
The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia
S2 Ep5
6.8
23rd Jun 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…
The Mob: How E Busted the Bull
S2 Ep4
6.8
16th Jun 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.
Narco Jihad
S3 Ep4
6.9
24th Aug 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.
The Mob and the Mujahideen
S3 Ep3
6.9
17th Aug 2022
The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.

Narco Wars Episode Guide

How Cocaine Came to America
S1 Ep1
7.5
9th Dec 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.
Mexicos First Cartel
S1 Ep2
7.2
16th Dec 2020
How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.
The Battle for the Border
S1 Ep3
7.6
23rd Dec 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.
Escobar's Empire
S1 Ep4
7.1
30th Dec 2020
Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.
Escobar Goes to War
S1 Ep5
7.1
6th Jan 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.
Rise of the Narco Army
S1 Ep6
6.6
20th Jan 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.
After Pablo
S1 Ep7
7.0
27th Jan 2021
Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.
Narco Cult
S1 Ep8
7.3
3rd Feb 2021
Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.
Chapo Public Enemy No. 1
S1 Ep9
7.1
10th Feb 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.
The Last Don
S1 Ep10
7.2
17th Feb 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

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.

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