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 17 Feb 2026

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02/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:35:20

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Ausha (17 shows)

3. Audiomeans (16 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 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	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
4	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
13	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
22	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
23	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
24	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
25	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
28	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
29	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
30	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
31	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
33	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
34	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
35	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
36	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
37	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
38	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
39	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
40	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
41	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
42	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
43	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
44	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
47	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Acast	73
48	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
49	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
50	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
51	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
52	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
53	Faire des sciences avec Star Wars Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
56	XXI	Revue 21	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	79
57	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	42
58	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
59	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
60	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
61	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	144	Ausha	58
62	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
63	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
64	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
65	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
66	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
67	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
68	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
69	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
70	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
71	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
72	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
73	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	Er is iets vreemds gebeurd	Babylon AC / Dag en Nacht Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	79
75	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
76	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
77	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
78	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
79	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
80	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
81	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
82	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
83	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
84	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	22	Acast	68
85	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
86	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
87	Aveyronnais et engagés	SDIS de l'Aveyron	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	94
88	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
89	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
90	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
91	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
92	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
93	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
94	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
95	Biskupsmálið	Gabríela Bryndís Ernudóttir	Society & Culture	2	Buzzsprout	48
96	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
97	Le Grand Large	Le Grand Large	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	53
98	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2423	Omny Studio	43
99	вДудь	vDud	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	33
100	L'ÂGE MURS	Vincent Malone - Le Poste Général	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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