The Best Drug Cartels & The Narco Wars Documentaries
45 hand-picked Drug Cartels & The Narco Wars documentaries, free to watch in HD and 4K on Dr Documentary.
The Cartel's Cash Catch2024•42m•HD•★8.7
The Narco-Lawyers Behind Mexico's Drug Cartels2023•52m•HD•★8.5
Narco Cartels: The Complete History of Drug Trafficking2025•1h 30m•4K•★8.3
Narco State Spain: Gateway for Drugs Into the European Union?2025•55m•HD•★8.0
Pablo Escobar: The True Story of the Ruthless Colombian Drug Lord2025•1h 2m•HD•★8.0
The Rise and Fall of El Chapo2024•1h 35m•HD•★8
The Whistleblowers Fighting to Expose Mexico's Corrupt Cartels2026•52m•HD•★8.0
Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel2021•30m•HD•★8.0
Child Victims of Central American Cartels: Fleeing to the US Border2022•47m•HD•★8.0
Inside the Sinaloa Cartel2024•54m•HD•★8
Mexico's Murdered & Missing: The True Victims of the Drug War2022•38m•HD•★8.0
Hunting Pablo Escobar: Interviews With Insiders2024•57m•HD•★8.0
Uncovering Crime and Corruption - Anabel Hernández Takes on Mexico's Drug Cartels2022•52m•HD•★8.0
Sacred Weeds: Part One - Unlocking the World of Narcotics2018•51m•HD•★8.0
Running a Drug Cartel like a Billionaire Business | EL CHAPO: CEO of Sinaloa2025•1h 36m•HD•★7.9
The Story of Charlotte Lindström - Drug Lords - S01 E10 - Crime Documentary2018•40m•HD•★7.9
Rise of the Sinaloa Cartel2025•56m•HD•★7.9
A Close Look Into Mexico's Drug Empire | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | @DocoCentral2024•2h 8m•HD•★7.9
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord2026•1h 23m•HD•★7.9
The Sinaloa Connection: Mexico Most Brutal Cartel2025•44m•HD•★7.9
Mysterious Narcotics Plane Wreck (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans | National Geographic2025•44m•4K•★7.7
Narco Bling: Chapo Guzman End Game (Full Episode) | SPECIAL2025•46m•4K•★7.7
Exclusive Footage of AMO & CBP Fighting Drug Trafficking (Full Episode) | To Catch a Smuggler2026•44m•4K•★7.7
$1.5M Drug Cartel Haul Found in Texas (Full Episode) | To Catch a Smuggler2024•44m•4K•★7.7
Exposing Mexican Cartels (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller | National Geographic2026•44m•4K•★7.7
Pablo Escobar: Man vs Myth (Full Episode) | National Geographic2024•44m•4K•★7.7
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle In The Jungle (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories2023•43m•HD•★7.7
Cartel Paradise: Investigating the Pacific's Drug Superhighway | Part 1 | Foreign Correspondent2026•45m•HD•★7.7
Inside The Narco Lawyers Keeping Kingpins In Power2025•55m•HD•★7.7
Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Lord2026•48m•HD•★7.7
Busting a billion dollar British scammer cartel | Part 1 of 2 | 7NEWS Spotlight Documentary2023•41m•HD•★7.7
Arming the Cartel, From the US to Mexico2026•53m•HD•★7.7
Drug War in Ecuador (full documentary) | FRONTLINE2025•53m•HD•★7.7
Arizona SWAT Raids a Million Dollar Cartel Stash House2026•42m•HD•★7.7
Cartel Canada | W5's Avery Haines investigates a Canadian meth pipeline2025•47m•HD•★7.7
Unmasking Hezbollah - Drug trafficking and terror (1/3) | DW Documentary2026•52m•HD•★7.7
How the FBI Infiltrated the World’s Deadliest Cartels | The FBI Files2025•2h 29m•HD•★7.7
Mexico: War of the drug cartels | DW Documentary2025•26m•HD•★7.7
El Chapo - Billionaire Cartel Boss Documentary2025•1h 7m•HD•★7.7
The Cocaine wars - Germany's fight against drug gangs | DW Documentary2025•28m•HD•★7.7
Iran's Ruthless Response To Drug Trafficking (2000)2018•28m•HD•★7.7
Mexico Cartels and the US | ARTE.tv Documentary2026•25m•HD•★7.7
The Narco Plague: Cocaine And Fentanyl’s Impact On Lives And Societies | Addicted – Ep 2/32026•46m•HD•★7.7
World's Deadliest Narco Zones: Trapped Among Cartels | Mexico, Honduras, Colombia | Free Documentary2026•2h 14m•HD•★7.7
Cartel Paradise: How Narco Subs Fuel a Transnational Drug Crisis | Part 2 | Foreign Correspondent2026•45m•HD•★7.7About this collection
The drug trade is a global business with the body count of a war, and these films follow it from the poppy field to the port. This collection gathers 45 documentaries on the cartels and the narco wars: Escobar and the Medellin, the Mexican syndicates, the smuggling routes, and the communities caught in the crossfire.
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