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 12 Aug 2026

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08/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:35:55

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. RTL (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Ausha (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. N/A (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	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
6	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
14	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
15	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
18	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
19	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
20	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
23	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
24	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
25	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
28	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
29	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
30	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
31	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
32	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
33	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
34	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
35	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
36	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
37	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
38	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
39	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
40	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
41	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
42	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
43	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
44	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
45	Le Tour de France avec Sully	We Tell Stories	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	48
46	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
47	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
48	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
49	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
50	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
51	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
52	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
53	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
54	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
55	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
56	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
57	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
58	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
59	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
60	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
62	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
66	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
67	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
68	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
69	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
70	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
71	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
73	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
74	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
75	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	35	Podcastics	69
76	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
77	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
78	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	479	Omny Studio	68
79	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
80	MISTERIO OVNI TERROR Y PARANORMAL	MISTERIO OVNI Y PARANORMAL	Society & Culture	1441	iVoox	53
81	Spooky Reddit Podcast	HustleStudios	Documentary	35	N/A	N/A
82	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
83	La tête haute	Charlotte Abramow	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	64
84	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	22
85	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
86	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
87	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
91	Le temps des écrivains	ACTUCEDRE	Society & Culture	3	Unknown	43
92	Et néanmoins la poésie...Philippe Jaccottet	Chahut Média	Society & Culture	4	Captivate	52
93	Mandela: An Audio History	Primedia Broadcasting	Society & Culture	6	Omny Studio	48
94	Une vie, une histoire	Par Milim de Myriam Levain et Elisa Azogui-Burlac	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	64
95	Radio_OVNI	Mario	Documentary	1539	N/A	N/A
96	Confessions of a borderline princess	Tanasha marie	Documentary	1	N/A	N/A
98	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
99	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
100	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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