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 14 Jun 2026

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06/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 141

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:39:49

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. BFMTV (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Ausha (15 shows)

3. Audiomeans (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
9	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
10	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
11	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
13	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
14	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
15	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
16	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
17	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
18	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
19	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
22	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
24	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
27	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
28	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
29	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
30	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
33	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
34	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
36	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
37	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
38	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
39	Experience Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Free Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
40	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
41	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
42	VIE DE QUINQUA Le Podcast	VIEDEQUINQUA	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	63
43	Les Éclaircies	Marine Lucas	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	48
44	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
45	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
46	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
47	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
48	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
49	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
51	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
52	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
53	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
54	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
56	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
57	Esperluette - Anthropologue du quotidien	Marie-Cécile Drécourt	Society & Culture	245	Ausha	94
58	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
59	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
60	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
61	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
62	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
63	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
64	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
65	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
66	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
68	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
69	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
70	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59
71	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
72	Problèmes de riches Saison 2	majelan	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	38
73	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
75	Taccuini	Internazionale	Society & Culture	2	Spreaker	64
76	Crimes et Chatiments Details temporarily unavailable	Crimes et Chatiments	True Crime	30	Spreaker	64
77	Un quart d'heure à Paris	Ville de Paris	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	79
78	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
79	Identités	Dakitse ou Eloge	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
80	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
81	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	53
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
83	Turbulences : traverser les troubles anxieux	Julien Morissette (Transistor Média)	Society & Culture	1	Transistor	73
84	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
85	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
87	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	212	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
89	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
90	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
91	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
92	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
93	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Education	232	Ausha	43
94	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
95	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
96	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
97	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
98	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
99	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
100	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63

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