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 15 Jan 2026

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01/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 120

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:32:16

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

5. La Cimade Podcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Megaphone (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
3	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
5	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
6	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
11	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
13	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
14	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
17	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
18	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
19	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
22	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
23	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
25	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
26	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
27	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
28	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
29	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
30	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	798	Audiomeans	74
33	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
34	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
35	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
36	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
37	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
38	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
39	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
40	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
41	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
42	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
43	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
44	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
45	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
46	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
47	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
48	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
49	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
50	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	38
51	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
53	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
55	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
58	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
59	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
60	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
61	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
62	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
63	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
64	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
66	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
67	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	83
68	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
69	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	18	Acast	79
70	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
71	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
72	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
73	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
74	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
75	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
76	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
77	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
78	Les sentinelles du vivant	Laure Cormier	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
79	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
80	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
81	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
82	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
83	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
84	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
85	Les casseroles palestiniennes	Basile Crespin et Louis Le Mesre de Pas	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	53
86	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
87	Maison Radieuse, premières années	ECPAD	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	69
88	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
89	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
90	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
91	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
92	OQTF : l'outil d'une politique d'expulsion française	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	53
93	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
94	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
95	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
96	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
97	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
98	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
99	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
100	ROC Taiwan : la singularité d'une île	Muriel Couton / Virginie Jortay	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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