Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. 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 02 Jan 2026

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01/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:35:05

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

4. Al Jazeera Network (3 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (19 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

4. Ausha (7 shows)

5. BBC (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
2	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
23	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
25	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
26	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
27	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
29	Les casseroles palestiniennes	Basile Crespin et Louis Le Mesre de Pas	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	53
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
35	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
36	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
37	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
39	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
40	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
42	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
43	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
45	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
46	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
47	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
48	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
49	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
50	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
51	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
52	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
53	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
54	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
55	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
56	Ticket gagnant	majelan	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	53
57	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
58	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	143	Ausha	63
59	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
60	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
61	Listen on the Go, Anytime With Free Audiobook \| Fiction, Contemporary	Free Audiobook	Society & Culture	3998	Unknown	59
63	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
64	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
65	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
66	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
67	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
68	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
69	A Caça ao Estripador de Lisboa	Observador	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	53
70	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
71	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
72	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
73	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
74	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
75	Révolutions philosophiques	majelan X	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	69
76	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
77	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
78	Die Goldspur – Über die dunkle Welt des Goldhandels \| WDR	WDR	Society & Culture	7	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	42
79	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
80	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
81	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
82	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
83	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
84	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
85	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	L'Horizon et au-delà, par GEO	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	16	Audion	58
87	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
88	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
89	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
90	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
91	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
92	Entre chez moi et ailleurs	Maxime Marques	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	TJU on air	Knate	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	33
94	OBSESSED - Döner Papers	ARD	Society & Culture	11	Bayerischer Rundfunk	59
95	OVNI - One Visit No Image - Écoutez, visitez ! Audiovisite n°1 en immobilier d'entreprise	MAPROPALE - Conseil et transaction en immobilier d'entreprise - Patrice de-MALARTIC	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
96	Donne Intrepide	Libroza	Society & Culture	51	Spotify for Podcasters	63
97	A Show About Animals	VICE	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	73
98	The Crisis	VICE	Society & Culture	16	Acast	63
99	Comment on s'aime ?	Klaam	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
100	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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