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 09 Jan 2026

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01/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 106

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:33:58

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

4. RTL (3 shows)

5. INA (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (22 shows)

2. Acast (21 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Megaphone (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
8	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
10	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
11	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
17	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
18	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
21	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
23	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
24	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	38
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
29	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
30	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
33	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
34	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
35	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
36	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
38	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
39	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	799	Audiomeans	74
40	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
41	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
42	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
43	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
44	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
45	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
46	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
47	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
48	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
49	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
50	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
51	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
52	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
53	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
54	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
56	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
57	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
58	人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材	厭世姬＆邊角料	Society & Culture	216	Firstory	43
59	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
60	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
61	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	18	Acast	79
62	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
63	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
64	INSPIRANT	Guillaume Descave	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	38
65	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
66	EcoloThème	Plume, Daphnée et O2 l'écolo	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	58
67	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
68	De Kunst van het Verdwijnen	VRT MAX	True Crime	17	Simplecast	73
69	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
70	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
71	NOUS GUÉRIR	Alice Lefilleul et Malika Beloucif	Society & Culture	7	Transistor	59
72	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
73	Transformer le travail	Anact	Society & Culture	17	Audiomeans	94
74	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
75	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
76	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
77	Les casseroles palestiniennes	Basile Crespin et Louis Le Mesre de Pas	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	53
78	Ce qui nous lie	Domitille Tassin	Society & Culture	36	Ausha	63
79	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
80	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
81	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
82	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
83	À VIF ! Créer pour Résister	Noa Levy-Baron, Agathe Redier, Marie Wallaert	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	27	Transistor	63
85	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
86	Sauver sa peau	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	2	Audiomeans	68
87	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
88	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
89	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
90	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
91	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
92	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
93	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
94	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
95	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
96	De chez les fêlés	Emmanuelle Gautier	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	69
97	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
98	postérité.	alexandre fassier	Society & Culture	8	Acast	63
100	Génération.	nicolas.mp4	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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