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Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami

★ 7.1 4K votes 2021–2021 1 season · 6 episodes Ended Netflix
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 9/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 7/10
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About

"A drug empire told through the men who ran it"

This docuseries traces the rise of two Cuban-American childhood friends who built one of the largest cocaine smuggling operations in Miami during the 1970s and 80s, and the decades-long legal battle that followed. Told through archival footage, courtroom material, and interviews with people who lived it, the series moves at a brisk, almost procedural pace. It leans more on the mechanics of the operation and the justice system's pursuit of it than on flashy reenactments, giving it a grounded, matter-of-fact tone rather than pure spectacle.

Watch it for

the firsthand interviews that give a notorious smuggling operation an unusually personal, human angle.

Maybe skip if

you want cinematic recreations rather than a talking-heads, courtroom-heavy retelling.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Limited Series2021
7.28716
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Willy & Sal7.1
176—
▶275 Tons7.3
156—
▶3Mountain of Evidence7.4
143—
▶4Only in Miami7.3
137—
▶5Femme Fatale7.1
131—
▶6Adios, Muchachos7.3
128—

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Alexia Nepola Self - Pedro Rosello's Girlfriend
Pedro Rosello Self - Former Drug Trafficker
Ralph Linero Self - Former Smuggler
Marilyn Bonachea Self - Sal Magluta's Girlfriend
Juan Barroso Self
Jim DeFede Self - Journalist
Christopher Clark Self - Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jorge Valdes Self - Former Drug Kingpin
Alex Alvarez Self - Miami-Dade Detective, Ret.
Michael 'Pat' Sullivan Self - Assistant U.S. Attorney, Ret.

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