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 13 Oct 2026

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10/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 102

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:33:40

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. BFMTV (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (14 shows)

4. Ausha (11 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	57	Audiomeans	73
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
6	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
9	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
10	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
13	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
14	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
15	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
16	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	36	Octopus	59
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
21	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
22	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
23	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
24	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
25	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	169	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	297	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
28	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
29	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	24	Acast	58
30	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	35	Simplecast	69
31	beantropy	Beantropy	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	53
32	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	36	Podcastics	63
33	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
36	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
37	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
38	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
39	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
40	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	2	Acast	58
41	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	44	Audiomeans	73
42	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
43	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	48
44	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	22
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	22	Ausha	73
47	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	968	Spreaker	64
48	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
49	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
50	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
51	Penser le 9-3	Making Waves et Profession Banlieue	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	63
52	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
53	Au rythme du Haut-Jura	Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	64
54	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	68
55	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
56	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
57	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
58	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
59	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
60	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
61	À pas de troupeau	Société d'Économie Alpestre de Savoie (SEA 73)	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	58
62	Impkt	IMPKT PODCAST	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	Radar	RTL	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	64
64	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	31	Ausha	89
65	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
66	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	116	BBC	38
67	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
68	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
69	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	520	Audiomeans	84
71	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	27	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
74	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
75	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
76	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
77	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	16	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
78	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
80	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	64	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
82	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
83	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
84	La tête haute	Charlotte Abramow	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	64
85	Les mémoires effacées	L'ambre fin	Society & Culture	3	Vodio	84
86	VIE DE QUINQUA Le Podcast	VIEDEQUINQUA	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	63
87	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
88	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
89	Chamonix : Terre de guides	Lucille Meriaux	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	42
90	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
91	Cent voix	Cent Voix	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	38
92	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
93	Ma Vie en Rose	Ma Vie en Rose - Radio Clapas	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	53
94	Transformer le travail	Anact	Society & Culture	17	Audiomeans	94
95	Gendarmerie Nationale, 300 Nuances de bleu	Gendarmerie Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
96	Rudolf Hess, le dauphin et héritier d'Hitler	Théo Salvi	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	38
97	Un doc Un soir	Moonshiner	Society & Culture	17	Audiomeans	63
98	The Hummingbird Collective	Sarah Noble & Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	68
99	American Miles	FieldCast	Society & Culture	2	Podcastics	74
100	De Goede Immigrant	NPO Radio 1 / VPRO	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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