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Real Narcos

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23 episodes · in order

If the US Government asked you to move to Colombia to hunt down the world’s most brutal narco-terrorist, what would you say? Real Narcos meets the real DEA agents tasked with bringing down some of history’s most notorious criminal masterminds - from the King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, to the most powerful drug trafficker on the planet, El Chapo.

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Episodes

  1. Introducing: Real Narcos

    · 2:20 · Trailer

    If the US Government asked you to move to Colombia to hunt down the world’s most brutal narco-terrorist, what would you say? Real Narcos meets the real DEA agents tasked with bringing down some of history’s most…

  2. Pablo Escobar Part 1: Baptism of Fire

    · 31 min · S1 E1

    In the 1980s, a new generation of American special agents lands in Colombia, tasked with capturing the most infamous cocaine trafficker on the planet: Pablo Escobar. We’re embedded with the DEA as they track down a man…

  3. Pablo Escobar Part 2: Making a Narco-Terrorist

    · 43 min · S1 E2

    We pull back the curtain on Escobar’s empire and follow his rise to power – from the rough streets of Medellin to the forefront of the international drugs trade. Journalist Simon Strong goes in search of Pablo’s…

  4. Pablo Escobar Part 3: Murder at the Mansion

    · 40 min · S1 E3

    Pablo Escobar launches all-out war on the Colombian government, firing RPG rockets at the man about to become President. A new DEA chief arrives in town with a maverick plan. And at a lavish party at Pablo’s mansion, a…

  5. Pablo Escobar Part 4: On the Run, the Game is Changing

    · 37 min · S1 E4

    Pablo escapes from his luxury prison and vanishes into the Colombian countryside. Agent Ken Magee finds himself on a plane bound for Frankfurt, Germany… with Pablo Escobar’s wife. And Escobar’s teenage son makes a…

  6. Pablo Escobar Part 5: The Final Battle

    · 37 min · S1 E5

    The DEA agents finally discover Escobar’s whereabouts. Pablo’s empire comes crashing down. Shot dead on a Medellin rooftop, the most powerful cocaine smuggler of all time meets a grisly end. The agents reflect on their…

  7. Barry Seal Part 1: The American Pilot

    · 36 min · S1 E6

    Pablo Escobar couldn’t have reached the heights he did without smugglers willing to traffic cocaine by land, sea… and air. The story of Barry Seal starts in a bar in Baton Rouge in 1981. It will take us flying over the…

  8. Barry Seal Part 2: Into the Lion's Den

    · 49 min · S1 E7

    Tom Cruise played him in a Hollywood blockbuster movie. Barry Seal’s name has passed into legend. In this episode of Real Narcos, Barry Seal flips. The world’s most illusive smuggler becomes the DEA’s most highly…

  9. Barry Seal Part 3: Sleep With One Eye Open

    · 48 min · S1 E8

    Barry Seal has gone from smuggler to informant, and now penetrates further into the heart of the Medellin Cartel than any American before or since. But this daredevil pilot flies too close to the sun. As Seal’s…

  10. Griselda Blanco Part 1: The Cocaine Godmother

    · 41 min · S1 E9

    In the early 1980s, the US Coast Guard are inundated with speedboats, propeller planes and helicopters loaded with ton upon ton of high-grade cocaine. Sleepy towns find themselves on the front line of the war on drugs.…

  11. Griselda Blanco Part 2: The Black Widow Devours Her Mate

    · 42 min · S1 E10

    Griselda Blanco outhustled and outwitted the men in her orbit to rise from desperate poverty on the streets of Colombia to remarkable wealth on Miami Beach. In Bogotá, a domestic dispute between Griselda and her…

  12. Matta Ballesteros Part 1: The Faceless Phantom

    · 41 min · S1 E11

    The drug lords in this series tend to be larger than life. This guy is a little different. The man they call ‘El Negro’ – ‘The Black One’ – is an elusive, faceless phantom. Hunting him is like trying to catch smoke.…

  13. Matta Ballesteros Part 2: Face to Face With the Cocaine Chemist

    · 48 min · S1 E12

    Everyone assumed Matta Ballesteros was just a low-level pusher. But it turns out he’s the shady mastermind funnelling eye-watering quantities of cocaine into the United States. After a long and gruelling pursuit across…

  14. Félix Gallardo Part 1: The Mexican Godfather

    · 39 min · S1 E13

    In 1981, DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena lands in Mexico. His task is to bring down the man known as El Padrino (The Godfather). This drug lord's real name is Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Gallardo sits atop an…

  15. Félix Gallardo Part 2: A Kidnapping Like No Other

    · 32 min · S1 E14

    In Guadalajara, DEA agents search frantically for their missing friend and colleague, Kiki Camarena. The US-Mexico border is almost shut down as 50% of all cars crossing at San Ysidro are searched for leads. The…

  16. Félix Gallardo Part 3: The Fall of El Padrino

    · 38 min · S1 E15

    With one of the Cartel leaders behind bars, the DEA have taken a big step in rounding up Agent Camarena's killers. The search is ramped up for the remaining fugitives. The noose tightens around Félix Gallardo, as DEA…

  17. El Chapo Part 1: Public Enemy Number One

    · 38 min · S1 E16

    El Chapo: the scourge of Mexico and America’s most-wanted. Joaquín Guzmán Loera, to use his real name, escaped from custody multiple times and dodged death many more. For years, he rode roughshod over Mexican justice…

  18. El Chapo Part 2: The Tunnel King

    · 40 min · S1 E17

    In the early 1980s, Chapo Guzmán is still in his mid-20s. But he’s already grabbed the attention of the Guadalajara Kingpin. Promoted to the Cartel's inner circle, he uses tunnels, ships and even submarines to…

  19. El Chapo Part 3: Showdown at the Border

    · 36 min · S1 E18

    After escaping a hit at Guadalajara Airport, El Chapo disappears from view. Acting on a tip-off, the authorities close in on a hotel in the border town of Tapachula. Returned home in handcuffs, Chapo can look forward…

  20. El Chapo Part 4: The Great Escape

    · 38 min · S1 E19

    It’s 2001, and Mexican drug baron Joaquín Guzmán Loera has spent nearly a decade behind bars. But now he becomes a fugitive once more, as he pulls off the most daring escape his super-max prison has ever seen. DEA…

  21. El Chapo Part 5: Cornered on the Coast

    · 39 min · S1 E20

    The DEA agents make a huge breakthrough in the investigation, when a routine wiretap in Arizona unexpectedly leads them to El Chapo’s personal cell phone. Monitoring his personal communications, they get to know their…

  22. El Chapo Part 6: Hollywood Comes Calling

    · 35 min · S1 E21

    It’s late 2014, and El Chapo is finally back behind bars. The prison he’s in has a reputation as a fortress - it’s even more secure than the last one. But if anyone’s going to have a crack at busting out, it’s Chapo…

  23. El Chapo Part 7: The Curtain Falls?

    · 34 min · S1 E22

    A desperate flight through a sewage pipe is not enough to deliver El Chapo to freedom. Arrested and extradited to the United States, his story closes in a packed Brooklyn courtroom, in front of the world’s media. But…

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