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 Mar 2026

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03/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 123

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:34:13

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Slate.fr Podcasts (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. INA (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
10	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
15	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
17	De voix en voies	OPCO Santé	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
18	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
19	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
22	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
23	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
24	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
25	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
26	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
27	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
28	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
31	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
33	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
34	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
37	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
38	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
39	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
40	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
41	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
42	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
43	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
44	Toute cette bravoure qui était en moi	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
45	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
46	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
47	Sauce Américaine	Maxime Cuvillier	Society & Culture	4	Acast	74
48	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
50	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
51	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
52	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
53	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
54	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
56	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
57	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
58	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
61	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
62	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
63	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
64	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
65	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
68	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
69	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
70	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
71	Ma Vie en Rose	Ma Vie en Rose - Radio Clapas	Society & Culture	84	Audiomeans	59
72	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
73	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
74	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	53	Ausha	53
75	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
76	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
77	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
78	Un quart d'heure à Paris	Ville de Paris	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	79
79	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
80	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
81	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
82	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
83	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
86	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
87	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
88	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
89	Les conférences de la Fondation Inalco	Inalco	Society & Culture	17	Acast	53
90	Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal	Brazen	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
91	Retour à l'instant - T	Lucie Pacrot	Society & Culture	61	Ausha	84
92	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
93	Confort moderne Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	11	N/A	N/A
94	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
95	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
96	La Voix des Oublié.e.s	Romain Rossard et Agathe Gallo du Média Quartier Libre	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
98	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
99	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
100	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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