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 Sep 2026

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09/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 105

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:36:43

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Ausha (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
5	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	19	Acast	68
6	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
9	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
10	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
11	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
14	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
15	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
18	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	370	Audion	58
19	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
20	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	101	Acast	73
21	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	288	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
23	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
25	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	952	Spreaker	64
26	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	1	Podcastics	69
27	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
28	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
29	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
30	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
31	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
32	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
33	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	161	Spotify for Podcasters	28
34	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
35	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
36	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
37	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
38	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
39	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
40	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
41	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	48
42	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	29	Ausha	89
43	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	122	Simplecast	53
44	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
45	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
46	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
47	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	11	Audiomeans	68
48	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
49	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
50	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
51	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
52	Les Désaxé•es	Les Désaxé•es	Society & Culture	6	Vodio	79
53	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
55	Dari Diaries : ma maison dans la médina	Dari Diaries	Society & Culture	6	Substack	58
56	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
57	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
58	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
59	Premiers Cris	Premiers Cris	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	59
60	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
61	Verts - Le Podcast	Groupe Linear	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
64	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
65	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	42
66	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	29	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	200	Megaphone	53
68	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	205	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Juifs, Musulmans: tenir ensemble	Chahut Media	Society & Culture	3	Captivate	52
70	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
71	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
72	Avis de Tempête	Avis de Tempête	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	49
73	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	16	Acast	90
74	Science Interdite	Erwan Prieur	Society & Culture	15	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	Enclave - Sopravvivere a Srebrenica	Samuele Sciarrillo e Silvia Longhi	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	89
76	Parentèle : en quête d'une famille qui nous ressemble	Maude Boutin St-Pierre	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
79	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
80	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	68	Spreaker	43
81	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
82	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
83	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
84	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
85	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	518	Audiomeans	84
86	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
87	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
88	WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!	The Galaga Guy	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	63
89	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
90	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
91	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
93	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	30	Simplecast	49
94	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
95	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
96	postérité.	alexandre fassier	Society & Culture	8	Acast	63
97	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
98	Oriana	Factanza Media	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
99	Solastalgie	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	16	Audiomeans	73
100	Hogar de cenizas	elDiario.es / Canarias Ahora	Society & Culture	6	Omny Studio	63

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