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 10 May 2026

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05/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 112

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:33:16

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (3 shows)

2. Louie Media (3 shows)

3. BFMTV (2 shows)

4. RTBF (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Ausha (9 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	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	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
10	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
12	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
21	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
22	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
23	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
24	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
25	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
26	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
27	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
29	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
30	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
31	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
32	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
33	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
34	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
35	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
36	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
37	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
40	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
41	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
42	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
43	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
44	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
45	Descendances	Alice Fidelle et Clara Haelters	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	69
46	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
47	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
48	Les Désaxé•es	Les Désaxé•es	Society & Culture	5	Vodio	79
49	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
50	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
51	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
52	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
53	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
54	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
55	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
56	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
57	NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind	NRC	Society & Culture	30	ART19	83
58	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
62	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
63	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
64	Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités	Samy Scoop	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
65	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
66	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
67	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
68	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
69	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
70	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
71	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	63
72	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
73	Danni Irreversibili - Il Caso Michael Jackson	Vois con Roberta Lippi e Lorenzo Brillo	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
74	NOUS GUÉRIR	Alice Lefilleul et Malika Beloucif	Society & Culture	7	Transistor	59
75	Les grandes histoires de l’est	Est Republicain/Republicain Lorrain/Vosges Matin	Society & Culture	76	Acast	89
76	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
77	Magtfuld	RADIO IIII	Society & Culture	74	Omny Studio	48
78	The Problem with Punishment	Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative	Society & Culture	12	Zencastr	38
79	Comment on s'aime ?	Klaam	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Réparer les violences	La Maison des femmes	Society & Culture	7	Acast	84
82	La Voix est Libre...et curieuse !	Katia Clot-Bouferrache	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
83	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
84	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
85	Bak’s To Congo	Christelle Bakima	Society & Culture	18	Spotify for Podcasters	63
86	Jeffery Epstein Biography Forever	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	4	Spreaker	59
87	Podcast 1 œnologie	Lila	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	La Diagonale des Autres	LAETITA LANTIERI	Society & Culture	18	Unknown	63
89	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
90	Backstage, derrière le micro	Benoit Thièbe	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	78
91	The Frost Tapes	Wilfred Frost, David Paradine Productions Ltd	Society & Culture	21	Simplecast	79
92	Leggende Metropolitane	Alessandro Piccioni	Society & Culture	41	Spreaker	79
93	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
94	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
95	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
96	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
97	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
98	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
99	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
100	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59

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