Narco Wars

Interviews and archive footage reveal how a small group formed the infamous Medellin Cartel and pioneered cocaine smuggling in the '70s and '80s.

The story of how a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico's first drug cartel and the crimes they committed to protect their operation.

From cocaine tycoon in the 70s to full blown narco terrorist by 1985 - this is the story of Pablo Escobar's rise to power in Colombia.

When a young Chapo Guzman tunnelled under the US border, it was just the beginning of a new cycle of competition and revenge in Mexico's drug trade.

With heavy weapons, military discipline and a shocking ruthlessness, the Zetas are a new breed and the most feared cartel in Mexico's history.

Pablo Escobar's family tell the story of life as it unravelled and his reign of terror saw planes blown from the sky and politicians assassinated.

Upon Escobar's death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specialising in corruption, including buying Colombia's presidents.

The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women from Chicago whose husbands turned against him.

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