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Season 1

  • S01E01 How Cocaine Came to America

    • December 9, 2020
    • National Geographic

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

  • S01E02 Mexico's First Cartel

    • December 16, 2020
    • National Geographic

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

  • S01E03 The Battle for the Border

    • December 23, 2020
    • National Geographic

    El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

  • S01E04 Escobar's Empire

    • December 30, 2020
    • National Geographic

    Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.

  • S01E05 Escobar Goes to War

    • January 6, 2021
    • National Geographic

    Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

  • S01E06 Rise of the Narco Army

    • January 20, 2021
    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E07 After Pablo

    • January 27, 2021
    • National Geographic

    Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.

  • S01E08 Narco Cult

    • February 3, 2021
    • National Geographic

    Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

  • S01E09 Chapo Public Enemy No. 1

    • February 10, 2021
    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E10 The Last Don

    • February 17, 2021
    • National Geographic

    In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Mob: The Heroin Don

    • May 26, 2021
    • National Geographic

    Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the United States. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way…

  • S02E02 The Mob: The Mafia Meth King

    • June 2, 2021
    • National Geographic

    The rise and fall of Philadelphia mobster Long John Martorano, who built a meth empire worth $500 million; told for the first time by those closest to him.

  • S02E03 The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don

    • June 9, 2021
    • National Geographic

    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.’

  • S02E04 The Mob: How E Busted the Bull

    • June 16, 2021
    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S02E05 The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia

    • June 23, 2021
    • National Geographic

    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…

  • S02E06 The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather

    • June 30, 2021
    • National Geographic

    The Rizzutos were one of the longest ruling dynasties in Mafia history. They built a multibillion dollar cocaine empire that spanned two continents.

Season 3