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 05 Nov 2026

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11/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 108

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:33:30

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (13 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	153	N/A	N/A
2	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	9	Acast	58
3	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	215	Acast	79
4	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	60	Audiomeans	73
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
10	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
11	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
12	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	390	Audion	58
13	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
15	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
16	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
17	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
18	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
19	Impkt	IMPKT PODCAST	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	38
20	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	302	Spotify for Podcasters	32
21	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	176	Spotify for Podcasters	28
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
24	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	22	Acast	68
25	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
26	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	978	Spreaker	64
27	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
28	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
29	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
30	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
31	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
32	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
34	Substance Podcast	Benjamin Billot	Society & Culture	190	Ausha	33
35	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
36	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
37	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
39	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
40	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	946	Simplecast	38
41	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
42	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
43	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
44	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
45	La nuit au parc	Parc Animalier de la Barben	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	43
46	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
47	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
48	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	69
49	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
50	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
52	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
53	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
54	TERRAIN	Tibi Jones	Society & Culture	1	Acast	79
55	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
57	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	453	Acast	74
59	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	53
61	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
63	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
64	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
65	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	48
66	AU LONG	Society	Society & Culture	49	Acast	63
67	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
68	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	27	RSS.com	58
69	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
70	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
71	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
72	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
73	Les Bonnes Ondes \| Le Maroc en sons et en récits	LES BONNES ONDES	Society & Culture	152	Podcastics	53
74	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
75	Les icebergs ÉPOUVANTABLES de Creepy Machine	Creepy Machine	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
76	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	8	Podcastics	69
77	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
78	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
79	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
80	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
81	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
82	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
83	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
84	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
85	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	27	ART19	73
86	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
87	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
88	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
89	FRAGMENTS - À l'écoute de l'Est	Marine Laurent	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	58
90	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
91	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
92	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	58
93	Тюремный подкаст	Поехавший	Society & Culture	139	mave	73
94	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
95	Mosaïque	Akadem, Institut français d'Israël	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	38
96	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
97	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
98	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
99	"Victimes, leur vie a basculé"	TELEPARIS GALAXIE	Society & Culture	6	Acast	63
100	Tech Bro Topia	Deutschlandfunk	Society & Culture	11	Deutschlandradio	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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