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 16 Jan 2026

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01/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 108

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:31:17

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (5 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

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

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (22 shows)

3. Ausha (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
6	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
9	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
15	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
16	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
17	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
18	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
21	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
22	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
23	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
24	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
25	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
26	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
28	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
29	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
30	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
31	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
32	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Les sentinelles du vivant	Laure Cormier	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
34	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
35	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
36	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
37	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
38	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	798	Audiomeans	74
39	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
40	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
41	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
42	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
43	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
45	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
46	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
47	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
48	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
49	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
50	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
51	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	37
52	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
53	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	83
54	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
55	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
56	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
57	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
58	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
59	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
60	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
61	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
62	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
63	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
64	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
65	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
66	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
67	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
68	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
69	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
70	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
71	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
72	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
73	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
74	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
75	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	38
76	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
77	Transformer le travail	Anact	Society & Culture	17	Audiomeans	94
78	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
80	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
81	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
82	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
83	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
84	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
85	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
86	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
87	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
88	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
89	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
90	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
91	De Kunst van het Verdwijnen	VRT MAX	True Crime	17	Simplecast	73
92	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
93	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
94	La Voix d'en Terre Indigène	En Terre Indigene	Society & Culture	44	Podcastics	43
95	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
96	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
98	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
99	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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