''Drug Lords'' is a 2018 American docu-series exploring real-life drug-dealing cartels and kingpins such as

Pablo Escobar Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (; ; 1 December 19492 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar is the wealthiest criminal i ...

, the

Cali Cartel The Cali Cartel ( es, Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela. They broke away fr ...

Frank Lucas Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug trafficker who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly f ...

and the

Pettingill family The Pettingill family is a Melbourne-based criminal family,Fears of gangland war in ...

Premise

''Drug Lords'' explores real-life drug-dealing cartels and kingpins such as

, the

and the Pettingill Clan by interviews from officers, gang members and journalists as well as dramatized re-enactments of certain events.

Cast

* Justin van Dijk * Quinn Dalton * Jordan Lawson * Razor Rocco Rizzotti * Winter Dunn

Episodes

Season 1 (2018)

Season 2 (2018)

Release

The series was released on January 19, 2018 on

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...

streaming.

References

External links

* * * 2018 American television series debuts 2010s American documentary television series English-language Netflix original programming Netflix original documentary television series Works about Mexican drug cartels Works about Colombian drug cartels {{US-nonfiction-tv-prog-stub