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 May 2026
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France
Society & Culture
Documentary
05/15/2026
Average data
Episodes: 114
Frequency: every 33 days
Duration: 00:33:20
Top 5 authors
1. Louie Media (4 shows)
2. INA (3 shows)
3. RTL (3 shows)
4. BBC World Service (2 shows)
5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)
Top 5 hosting
1. Acast (20 shows)
2. Audiomeans (16 shows)
3. Ausha (12 shows)
4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)
5. Megaphone (6 shows)
| Rank | Logo | 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 |  | Rôles Modèles | ELLE | Society & Culture | 19 | Acast | 90 |
| 6 |  | La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir | The French Whisperer | Society & Culture | 81 | Megaphone | 62 |
| 7 |  | Archives | Neoxi | Society & Culture | 73 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 8 |  | Injustices | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 60 | Acast | 73 |
| 9 |  | Le bureau des complots | RTBF | Society & Culture | 59 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 10 |  | PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies | Minuit | Society & Culture | 387 | Audion | 58 |
| 11 |  | Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel | RTBF | Society & Culture | 7 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 12 |  | La société de minuit | Tatiana Benhamou | Society & Culture | 106 | Acast | 73 |
| 13 |  | Les Enfermé·es | Making Waves | Society & Culture | 10 | Transistor | 53 |
| 14 |  | Ou peut-être une nuit | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 6 | Acast | 69 |
| 15 |  | JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia | Isabelle Farrugia | Society & Culture | 22 | Acast | 68 |
| 16 |  | Une lettre d'Amérique | RTL | Society & Culture | 101 | Audiomeans | 54 |
| 17 |  | Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée | Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée | Society & Culture | 75 | Spotify for Podcasters | 22 |
| 18 |  | In Tenebris | Marine Benoit | True Crime | 27 | Acast | 79 |
| 19 |  | La dame du CDI | Nathanael | Society & Culture | 31 | Spotify for Podcasters | 38 |
| 20 |  | Empire Stories | Entrepreneur Mindset | Society & Culture | 60 | Ausha | 53 |
| 21 |  | Lignes de crêtes | Making Waves | Society & Culture | 3 | Transistor | 59 |
| 22 |  | Destins Extraordinaires | Europe1 | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 43 |
| 23 |  | Dark Stories | Dark Stories | Society & Culture | 174 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 24 |  | Thread Horreur By Delkor | Delkor | Society & Culture | 300 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 25 |  | La Minute Géographie | La Minute Géographie | Society & Culture | 26 | Spotify for Podcasters | 22 |
| 26 |  | The Documentary Podcast | BBC World Service | Society & Culture | 2000 | BBC | 33 |
| 27 |  | OÙ EST LE BEAU ? | Hélène Aguilar | Society & Culture | 524 | Audiomeans | 84 |
| 28 |  | Radio Ambulante | My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 372 | Omny Studio | 73 |
| 29 |  | L'Affaire | Paradiso Media | Society & Culture | 73 | Acast | 79 |
| 30 |  | Il suffit d'écouter les femmes | INA | Society & Culture | 6 | Octopus | 59 |
| 31 |  | World of Secrets | BBC | Society & Culture | 101 | BBC | 53 |
| 32 |  | The Secret World of Roald Dahl | iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 14 | Omny Studio | 78 |
| 33 |  | ET PAN ! | ET PAN ! | Society & Culture | 4 | Ausha | 64 |
| 34 |  | Les Vrais Souverains | Arnaud Montebourg | Society & Culture | 14 | Ausha | 74 |
| 35 |  | Stories from a Stranger | Higher Ground | Society & Culture | 26 | ART19 | 73 |
| 36 |  | Espace Documentaire | Espace Documentaire | Society & Culture | 975 | Spreaker | 64 |
| 37 |  | Gilles Galloux | Gilles Galloux | Society & Culture | 11 | Transistor | 53 |
| 38 |  | PRESS ROOM | Esther Press Room | Society & Culture | 20 | Ausha | 94 |
| 39 |  | Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher | Society & Culture | 945 | Simplecast | 38 |
| 40 |  | Le monde selon Trump | BFMTV | Society & Culture | 37 | Simplecast | 69 |
| 41 |  | Uncanny | BBC Radio 4 | Society & Culture | 130 | BBC | 38 |
| 42 |  | CANAL 16 | SNSM | Society & Culture | 38 | Acast | 79 |
| 43 |  | Entre | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 61 | Acast | 94 |
| 44 |  | Les grandes enquêtes | Binge Audio | Society & Culture | 38 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 45 |  | Création Documentaire | Radio Grenouille | Society & Culture | 27 | Transistor | 63 |
| 47 |  | Tous Parano | Tous Parano | Society & Culture | 59 | Podcastics | 89 |
| 48 |  | The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable | Ky Dickens | Society & Culture | 88 | Acast | 84 |
| 49 |  | Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973) | INA | Society & Culture | 7 | Octopus | 59 |
| 50 |  | This Is Actually Happening | Audible Original | Society & Culture | 358 | ART19 | 68 |
| 51 |  | Happy End | Sarah Dumont | Society & Culture | 37 | Podcastics | 63 |
| 52 |  | Rádio Novelo Apresenta | Rádio Novelo | Society & Culture | 206 | Megaphone | 63 |
| 53 |  | Anaïs Lenar | Anaïs Lenar | Society & Culture | 26 | Acast | 38 |
| 54 |  | Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités | Samy Scoop | Society & Culture | 5 | Acast | 63 |
| 55 |  | L'Envers de la case | Groupe Delcourt | Society & Culture | 13 | Ausha | 69 |
| 56 |  | Tout est affaires | Outre-mer la 1ère | Society & Culture | 9 | Octopus | 43 |
| 57 |  | Latitudes Pyrénées | Anne-Sophie Estruch | Society & Culture | 54 | Ausha | 53 |
| 58 |  | Un jour, un doc | RTL | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 43 |
| 59 |  | OnlyFantasy | Audible Original | Society & Culture | 31 | ART19 | 53 |
| 60 |  | Enquête d'avenir | Ariane Cronel | Society & Culture | 36 | Spotify for Podcasters | 73 |
| 61 |  | FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime | Frictions | Society & Culture | 144 | Ausha | 58 |
| 62 |  | Thunder Bay | Canadaland | Society & Culture | 14 | Acast | 59 |
| 63 |  | Oh my planète | ADEME | Society & Culture | 46 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 64 |  | Political Lens | XLab Network | Society & Culture | 5 | Acast | 39 |
| 65 |  | NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind | NRC | Society & Culture | 30 | ART19 | 83 |
| 66 |  | La Fille sur le canapé | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 10 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 67 |  | VYRAJE | Sarah Bardin | Society & Culture | 33 | Ausha | 79 |
| 68 |  | Inheritance | BBC World Service | Society & Culture | 15 | BBC | 63 |
| 69 |  | Bref, l’effondrement. | Cyril Hique | Society & Culture | 47 | Ausha | 38 |
| 70 |  | Black Box: The Chatbots | The Guardian | Society & Culture | 51 | Acast | 68 |
| 71 |  | The Why Files: Operation Podcast | The Why Files: Operation Podcast | Society & Culture | 314 | Megaphone | 42 |
| 72 |  | Le Procès Harelle | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 9 | Audiomeans | 53 |
| 73 |  | LE DIVAN | TVONEAR | Society & Culture | 74 | Audiomeans | 69 |
| 74 |  | Crímenes Ibéricos | Abbcast | Society & Culture | 286 | Unknown | 49 |
| 75 |  | Great Lives | BBC Radio 4 | Society & Culture | 416 | BBC | 28 |
| 76 |  | Les mille et une vies de Sign | Karim Boukercha | Society & Culture | 11 | RedCircle | 48 |
| 77 |  | Adrift | Apple TV / Blanchard House | Society & Culture | 10 | ART19 | 63 |
| 78 |  | Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries | Olimpia Pérez | Society & Culture | 146 | Megaphone | 68 |
| 79 |  | Grandes Vecindarios | SummerStory & Grupo Mutua Propietarios | Society & Culture | 6 | Megaphone | 64 |
| 80 |  | La Machine à écrire | Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau | Society & Culture | 32 | Ausha | 84 |
| 81 |  | Créations originales | StudioFact Audio | Society & Culture | 20 | Audiomeans | 79 |
| 82 |  | Decode - Explore Media | Explore Media | Society & Culture | 81 | Audion | 43 |
| 83 |  | Carnet de Voyage | Carnet de Voyage | Society & Culture | 64 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 84 |  | À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator | INA | Documentary | 7 | N/A | N/A |
| 85 |  | Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash | Karine de Falchi | Society & Culture | 20 | Ausha | 58 |
| 86 |  | À Brûler Sans Ouvrir | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 13 | Audiomeans | 83 |
| 87 |  | Comment on s'aime ? | Klaam | Society & Culture | 13 | Acast | 64 |
| 88 |  | Hyperfixed | Alex Goldman & Radiotopia | Society & Culture | 58 | PRX | 74 |
| 89 |  | Parcours, la parole aux invisibles | Parcours, la parole aux invisibles | Society & Culture | 34 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 90 |  | Bak’s To Congo | Christelle Bakima | Society & Culture | 18 | Spotify for Podcasters | 63 |
| 91 |  | Wind of Change | Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify | Society & Culture | 16 | Megaphone | 53 |
| 92 |  | Faire des sciences avec Star Wars Details temporarily unavailable | BLYND | Society & Culture | 20 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 93 |  | Al Jazeera English | Al Jazeera Network | Society & Culture | 12 | Spreaker | 43 |
| 94 |  | Spiral | Tortoise Investigates | The Observer | Society & Culture | 117 | Acast | 73 |
| 95 |  | Strangers on a Bench | Tom Rosenthal | Society & Culture | 100 | Acast | 59 |
| 96 |  | Les Archi.culteurs | Les Archi.culteurs | Society & Culture | 10 | Spotify for Podcasters | 53 |
| 97 |  | 人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材 | 厭世姬＆邊角料 | Society & Culture | 216 | Firstory | 43 |
| 98 |  | Dosis | La No Ficcion | Society & Culture | 18 | Spotify for Podcasters | 43 |
| 99 |  | IT'S YOUR ARCHIVES | Amelle Sokamessou | Society & Culture | 6 | Ausha | 69 |
| 100 |  | Untold: Opus Dei | Financial Times | Society & Culture | 25 | Acast | 69 |
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