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 Oct 2025

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10/15/2025

Average data

Episodes: 116

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:35:18

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. TVONEAR (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (21 shows)

2. Acast (21 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (11 shows)

5. Megaphone (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
10	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
11	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
12	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
13	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
19	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
20	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	25	Acast	79
21	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
22	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
25	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
27	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
28	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
29	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
32	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
34	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
35	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	29	Spotify for Podcasters	38
36	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	775	Audiomeans	74
37	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
38	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
39	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	520	Audiomeans	84
40	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
41	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
42	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
43	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
44	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
45	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
46	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	23	Acast	58
47	La Diagonale des Autres	LAETITA LANTIERI	Society & Culture	18	Unknown	63
48	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
49	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
52	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
53	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
54	Nos trajectoires comme des planètes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	63
55	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
56	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
57	La révolution, et après ? Un podcast Frictions	Frictions	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	53
58	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
59	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
62	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
63	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
64	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
65	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
66	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
67	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	53
68	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
69	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
70	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
71	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
72	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
74	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
75	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
76	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
77	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
78	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
79	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
80	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
81	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
82	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
83	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
84	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
86	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
87	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
88	Ce qui nous lie	Domitille Tassin	Society & Culture	36	Ausha	63
89	Les Juifs sur le podium	Akadem	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
90	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
91	Les Grands Entretiens d'Europe 1	Europe 1	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	43
92	A Eleição Mais Louca de Sempre	Observador	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	63
93	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
94	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	35	Podcastics	63
95	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
96	E poi il silenzio - Il disastro di Rigopiano	Pablo Trincia – Sky Original by Chora Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
97	Immersion Podcast \| Documentaires Français Intéressants VF \| Docs Reportages & Emissions 2024	Immersion DOCS Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Acast	48
98	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
99	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
100	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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