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You can stream El Chapo (2017) on Netflix with a subscription.

A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.

This biographical saga ditches typical cinematic gloss to document the brutal, logistical reality of building a global narcotics empire. You will see how a small-time laborer climbed through a shifting underworld of shifting alliances to reshape the history of organized crime.