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 Jul 2026

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07/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 112

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:35:17

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (15 shows)

3. Audiomeans (14 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. BBC (5 shows)

Rank	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	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
8	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
10	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
11	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
12	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
15	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
16	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
21	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
22	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
23	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
24	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
25	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
27	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
28	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
29	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
30	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
31	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
32	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
34	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
35	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
36	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
37	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
38	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
39	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
40	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
41	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
42	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
43	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
45	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
46	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
48	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
50	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
52	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
53	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
54	Le temps des écrivains	ACTUCEDRE	Society & Culture	3	Unknown	43
55	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
56	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
57	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
61	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
62	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
63	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
64	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
65	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
66	Les Activités sociales de l’énergie : 80 ans au service de la justice sociale et de la solidarité	CCAS	Society & Culture	2	Audiomeans	73
67	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
68	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
71	Isonomia, le podcast.	Isonomia_pure	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	43
72	INSIDE CumEx – Jagd auf die Steuer-Mafia	ARD	Society & Culture	9	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	42
73	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
74	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
75	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
76	INSPIRANT	Guillaume Descave	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	38
77	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
78	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
79	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
80	En pleine tempête - Récits de survie en mer	AUDIO360	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	63
81	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
82	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
83	K-Life Project: From Seoul to Jeju	NEMONEAIM	Society & Culture	15	Spotify for Podcasters	37
84	Le Conteur de l'Inconnu	Michel ROUSSEAU	Society & Culture	5	Acast	59
85	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
86	Territoires en résistance	Terres de luttes	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	17
87	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
88	Crimes et Chatiments Details temporarily unavailable	Crimes et Chatiments	True Crime	30	Spreaker	64
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
90	Une femme, des combats	Lisa Morison	Society & Culture	6	Audiomeans	73
91	Espèce de chômeur !	Solidarités nouvelles face au chômage (SNC)	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
92	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
93	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
94	Femme de militaire, le combat de la base arrière	Océane	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Millie Bobby Brown - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	18	Spreaker	59
96	Héroïnes Cachées	Le Café Littéraire	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	Ensemble derrière les barreaux	Yann Besson & Ilona Cathelin	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
98	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
99	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
100	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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