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 May 2026
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France
Society & Culture
Documentary
05/09/2026
Average data
Episodes: 114
Frequency: every 40 days
Duration: 00:33:28
Top 5 authors
1. Louie Media (4 shows)
2. RTBF (3 shows)
3. RTL (3 shows)
4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)
5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)
Top 5 hosting
1. Acast (21 shows)
2. Audiomeans (16 shows)
3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)
4. Ausha (9 shows)
5. BBC (6 shows)
| Rank | Logo | Name | Artist | Main Category | Eps | Hosting | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator | France Inter | Documentary | 134 | 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 fabrique du mensonge | France Télévisions | Society & Culture | 39 | Octopus | 59 |
| 5 |  | Rôles Modèles | ELLE | Society & Culture | 15 | Acast | 90 |
| 6 |  | Archives | Neoxi | Society & Culture | 69 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 7 |  | Une lettre d'Amérique | RTL | Society & Culture | 101 | Audiomeans | 54 |
| 8 |  | La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir | The French Whisperer | Society & Culture | 75 | Megaphone | 62 |
| 9 |  | PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies | Minuit | Society & Culture | 368 | Audion | 58 |
| 10 |  | Le bureau des complots | RTBF | Society & Culture | 52 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 11 |  | La société de minuit | Tatiana Benhamou | Society & Culture | 100 | Acast | 73 |
| 12 |  | Injustices | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 60 | Acast | 73 |
| 13 |  | Destins Extraordinaires | Europe1 | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 43 |
| 14 |  | In Tenebris | Marine Benoit | Society & Culture | 23 | Acast | 84 |
| 15 |  | Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée | Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée | Society & Culture | 75 | Spotify for Podcasters | 22 |
| 16 |  | The Documentary Podcast | BBC World Service | Society & Culture | 2000 | BBC | 33 |
| 17 |  | Ou peut-être une nuit | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 6 | Acast | 69 |
| 18 |  | Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel | RTBF | Society & Culture | 7 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 19 |  | Le monde selon Trump | BFMTV | Society & Culture | 29 | Simplecast | 49 |
| 20 |  | Gilles Galloux | Gilles Galloux | Society & Culture | 9 | Transistor | 59 |
| 21 |  | ET PAN ! | ET PAN ! | Society & Culture | 4 | Ausha | 64 |
| 22 |  | Dark Stories | Dark Stories | Society & Culture | 160 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 23 |  | JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia | Isabelle Farrugia | Society & Culture | 18 | Acast | 68 |
| 24 |  | World of Secrets | BBC | Society & Culture | 98 | BBC | 53 |
| 25 |  | Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher | Society & Culture | 1005 | Simplecast | 38 |
| 26 |  | Espace Documentaire | Espace Documentaire | Society & Culture | 949 | Spreaker | 64 |
| 27 |  | Tous Parano | Tous Parano | Society & Culture | 59 | Podcastics | 89 |
| 28 |  | Empire Stories | Entrepreneur Mindset | Society & Culture | 60 | Ausha | 53 |
| 29 |  | Les Enfermé·es | Making Waves | Society & Culture | 9 | Transistor | 59 |
| 30 |  | L'Affaire | Paradiso Media | Society & Culture | 73 | Acast | 79 |
| 31 |  | À Brûler Sans Ouvrir | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 13 | Audiomeans | 83 |
| 32 |  | The Secret World of Roald Dahl | iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 14 | Omny Studio | 78 |
| 33 |  | Les Désaxé•es | Les Désaxé•es | Society & Culture | 5 | Vodio | 79 |
| 34 |  | VYRAJE | Sarah Bardin | Society & Culture | 28 | Ausha | 79 |
| 35 |  | La Fille sur le canapé | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 10 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 36 |  | Thread Horreur By Delkor | Delkor | Society & Culture | 287 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 37 |  | The Missing Cryptoqueen | BBC Sounds | Society & Culture | 25 | BBC | 33 |
| 38 |  | The Gift | BBC Radio 4 | Society & Culture | 23 | BBC | 59 |
| 39 |  | La Minute Géographie | La Minute Géographie | Society & Culture | 24 | Spotify for Podcasters | 22 |
| 40 |  | Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973) | INA | Society & Culture | 7 | Octopus | 59 |
| 41 |  | OÙ EST LE BEAU ? | Hélène Aguilar | Society & Culture | 516 | Audiomeans | 84 |
| 42 |  | Strangers on a Bench | Tom Rosenthal | Society & Culture | 100 | Acast | 59 |
| 43 |  | Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités | Samy Scoop | Society & Culture | 5 | Acast | 63 |
| 44 |  | Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates | The Observer | Society & Culture | 120 | Acast | 73 |
| 45 |  | Oh my planète | ADEME | Society & Culture | 41 | Audiomeans | 79 |
| 46 |  | Thunder Bay | Canadaland | Society & Culture | 12 | Acast | 63 |
| 47 |  | Danni Irreversibili - Il Caso Michael Jackson | Vois con Roberta Lippi e Lorenzo Brillo | Society & Culture | 10 | Megaphone | 48 |
| 48 |  | PRESS ROOM | Esther Press Room | Society & Culture | 20 | Ausha | 94 |
| 49 |  | Histoires lesbiennes | Marine GILIS | Society & Culture | 7 | Acast | 69 |
| 50 |  | WTF is on my Mind?! | Mark Vicente | Society & Culture | 123 | Buzzsprout | 53 |
| 51 |  | La dame du CDI | Nathanael | Society & Culture | 28 | Spotify for Podcasters | 38 |
| 52 |  | Adrift | Apple TV / Blanchard House | Society & Culture | 9 | ART19 | 69 |
| 53 |  | Where the River Took Us | Texas Monthly | Society & Culture | 10 | Spreaker | 64 |
| 54 |  | Il suffit d'écouter les femmes | INA | Society & Culture | 6 | Octopus | 59 |
| 55 |  | À Travers La Serrure | Podcast Paranormal | À Travers La Serrure | Society & Culture | 6 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 56 |  | The Slow Newscast | The Observer | Society & Culture | 438 | Acast | 74 |
| 57 |  | LE DIVAN | TVONEAR | Society & Culture | 74 | Audiomeans | 69 |
| 58 |  | Entre | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 61 | Acast | 94 |
| 59 |  | Untold: Opus Dei | Financial Times | Society & Culture | 25 | Acast | 69 |
| 60 |  | Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique | Thomas Hellman | Society & Culture | 16 | RSS.com | 42 |
| 61 |  | Au cœur des archives | Europe 1 | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 62 |  | A bout de Taf | Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel | Society & Culture | 81 | Acast | 69 |
| 64 |  | Un jour, un doc | RTL | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 43 |
| 65 |  | Anaïs Lenar | Anaïs Lenar | Society & Culture | 22 | Acast | 58 |
| 66 |  | Création Documentaire | Radio Grenouille | Society & Culture | 24 | Transistor | 63 |
| 67 |  | IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent | LCI - Sylvia Amicone | Society & Culture | 200 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 68 |  | Uncanny | BBC Radio 4 | Society & Culture | 170 | BBC | 38 |
| 69 |  | Inheritance: Samsung | BBC World Service | Society & Culture | 11 | BBC | 63 |
| 70 |  | NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo | Brieuc Quil | Society & Culture | 6 | Ausha | 62 |
| 71 |  | Lucky Boy | Gary Marshall | Documentary | 6 | N/A | N/A |
| 72 |  | Decoder Ring | Slate Podcasts | Society & Culture | 162 | Acast | 69 |
| 73 |  | Manger les riches | Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias | Society & Culture | 21 | RSS.com | 48 |
| 74 |  | Identités | Dakitse ou Eloge | Society & Culture | 5 | Ausha | 53 |
| 75 |  | Septentrion | Stéphane Dugast | Society & Culture | 20 | Ausha | 73 |
| 76 |  | Le Fumoir | Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre | Society & Culture | 7 | Acast | 79 |
| 77 |  | Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter | Forbidden Knowledge Network | Society & Culture | 148 | Spotify for Podcasters | 52 |
| 78 |  | Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable | Simon Bown | Society & Culture | 423 | Simplecast | 63 |
| 79 |  | Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange | RTBF | Society & Culture | 9 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 80 |  | NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind | NRC | Society & Culture | 30 | ART19 | 83 |
| 81 |  | Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities | Audacy | Society & Culture | 92 | WideOrbit | 68 |
| 82 |  | Sold a Story | APM Reports | Society & Culture | 23 | American Public Media | 62 |
| 83 |  | The Shrink Next Door | Audible | Bloomberg | Society & Culture | 3 | ART19 | 63 |
| 84 |  | Historia para Dormir | Historia para Dormir | Society & Culture | 85 | Spotify for Podcasters | 48 |
| 85 |  | At a Distance | The Slowdown | Society & Culture | 167 | Simplecast | 63 |
| 86 |  | Présence | Radiola | Radiola | Society & Culture | 218 | Unknown | 43 |
| 87 |  | TIJ (The Inner Journey) | Amel | Society & Culture | 100 | Podbean | 53 |
| 88 |  | Être infirmier(ère) | Réussis ton IFSI | Society & Culture | 19 | Spotify for Podcasters | 53 |
| 89 |  | The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable | Ky Dickens | Society & Culture | 88 | Acast | 84 |
| 90 |  | Radio Ambulante | My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 369 | Omny Studio | 73 |
| 91 |  | Rádio Novelo Apresenta | Rádio Novelo | Society & Culture | 199 | Megaphone | 53 |
| 92 |  | En quête de l’étrange | Pia Brunner | Society & Culture | 77 | Spotify for Podcasters | 38 |
| 93 |  | Police, le podcast | Police nationale | Society & Culture | 20 | Ausha | 83 |
| 94 |  | Le Procès Harelle | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 9 | Audiomeans | 53 |
| 95 |  | Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit | Veridox | Society & Culture | 22 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 96 |  | X Docs Français | X Dox | Society & Culture | 15 | Spotify for Podcasters | 43 |
| 97 |  | Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable | BLYND | Society & Culture | 20 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 98 |  | Mind Games | Kaleidoscope | Society & Culture | 11 | Omny Studio | 53 |
| 99 |  | Raconter le réel Doc | clement touron | Society & Culture | 30 | Ausha | 63 |
| 100 |  | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera Network | Society & Culture | 63 | Spreaker | 43 |
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