Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada - Category Documentary

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 12 Nov 2026

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11/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:46:21

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Author	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	163	Megaphone	48
2	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	361	ART19	68
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	317	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	163	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	948	Simplecast	38
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	275	WideOrbit	48
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	448	Megaphone	32
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	149	Megaphone	68
11	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	63
12	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
13	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	134	BBC	38
14	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	221	Megaphone	38
15	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	14	Acast	63
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	30	American Public Media	62
17	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	28	RSS.com	58
18	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	274	Spreaker	69
19	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	57	Megaphone	48
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	161	N/A	N/A
23	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	73	Acast	83
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	193	PRX	79
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	109	Acast	79
27	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
28	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	287	Megaphone	43
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	308	WideOrbit	68
31	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	17	BBC	63
32	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	96	Libsyn	62
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	56	RedCircle	73
34	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
35	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	714	Megaphone	53
38	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	375	Omny Studio	73
40	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
41	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	157	Spotify for Podcasters	52
42	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1213	Acast	59
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
44	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	130	Simplecast	53
45	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
46	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	10	RedCircle	69
47	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
48	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	59	Unknown	68
49	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	62
50	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
51	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
52	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	393	Audion	58
54	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	216	Acast	79
59	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	92	Omny Studio	63
60	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
61	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	532	Spreaker	43
62	My Brother David	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	3	Omny Studio	53
63	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
65	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	178	Spotify for Podcasters	28
66	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
67	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	512	RedCircle	43
68	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	241	Acast	43
69	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
70	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	101	WideOrbit	68
71	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
72	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	195	Ximalaya	53
74	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	349	Acast	64
75	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	32
76	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	17	PRX	69
77	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	414	Buzzsprout	83
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
80	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	684	Acast	69
81	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	61	Audiomeans	73
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	16	Acast	84
84	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	7	ART19	58
85	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	53
86	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
87	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	417	BBC	28
89	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	Manger les riches Details temporarily unavailable	Unknown author	Documentary	N/A	N/A	N/A
91	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
92	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	358	Simplecast	78
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1958	Omny Studio	52
94	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
95	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
96	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
97	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
99	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	74	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48

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