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 06 Sep 2026

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09/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 98

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:33:23

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. INA (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (7 shows)

5. Transistor (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	51	Audiomeans	73
7	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
8	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
9	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
10	Chroniques Obscures	Neoxi	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
13	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
14	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
19	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
20	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
21	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
22	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
23	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
24	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
25	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
26	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
27	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
28	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	286	Spotify for Podcasters	32
29	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
30	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
33	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
36	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
37	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	117	Simplecast	53
38	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
39	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
40	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
41	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
42	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
43	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
44	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
46	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
47	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
48	Juifs, Musulmans: tenir ensemble	Chahut Media	Society & Culture	3	Captivate	52
50	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
51	Chamonix : Terre de guides	Lucille Meriaux	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	42
52	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
54	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
55	La Lignée	Julien Goetz	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
56	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
57	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
58	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
59	Dari Diaries : ma maison dans la médina	Dari Diaries	Society & Culture	5	Substack	58
60	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
61	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
62	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	948	Spreaker	64
63	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
64	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
65	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
66	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
67	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
68	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
69	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
70	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
71	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
72	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
73	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
74	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
75	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
76	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
77	Penser le 9-3	Making Waves et Profession Banlieue	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	63
78	Somniloquie	Sieste Ensemble	Society & Culture	1	RSS.com	52
79	Dark Matters – Geheimnisse der Geheimdienste	SWR3, rbb24 Inforadio, Eva-Maria Lemke	Society & Culture	101	Unknown	48
80	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
81	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
82	Les Cris	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
83	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	257	WideOrbit	48
84	Springerstiefel – Alpha oder Opfer?	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	Society & Culture	19	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	43
85	Le conflit mot à mot	Akadem	Society & Culture	5	Unknown	43
86	Wild Wild Web - Geschichten aus dem Internet	ARD	Society & Culture	44	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
87	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
88	Les Abysses de la BIS	RSU Radio Sorbonne Université	Society & Culture	7	Acast	73
89	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
90	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
91	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	19	ART19	73
93	The Design Entrepreneurs	Maison&Objet	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	59
94	Raconter le réel Doc	clement touron	Society & Culture	30	Ausha	63
95	The Zandland Show	Zandland	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Derrière Les Portes	Xsium	Society & Culture	2	Spotify for Podcasters	33
97	Le journal de Louise, 1914-1918	Musée de la Grande Guerre / Artips	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	63
98	Le douze, le podcast 100% Aveyron	Sandrine Casses	Society & Culture	60	Podcastics	68
99	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
100	En Miroir	Benjamin Milazzo	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	89

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