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 19 May 2026

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05/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 128

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:33:57

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (3 shows)

2. INA (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. Making Waves (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. Transistor (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	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 fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
11	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
14	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
15	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
16	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
17	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
20	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
21	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
22	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
23	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
27	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
28	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
29	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
30	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
31	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
32	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
33	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
35	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
36	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
38	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
39	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
40	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
41	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
43	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
45	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
46	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
47	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
48	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
49	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
50	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
53	NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind	NRC	Society & Culture	30	ART19	83
54	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
55	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
56	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
57	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
60	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
61	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
62	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
63	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
64	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
65	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
66	Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités	Samy Scoop	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
67	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
68	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
69	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	53	Ausha	53
70	Penser le 9-3	Making Waves et Profession Banlieue	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	63
71	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
72	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
73	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
74	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
75	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
76	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
77	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
78	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
79	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
80	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
81	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
82	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
83	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
84	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
85	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	45	Ausha	43
86	Campagnes urbaines	Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
87	Les Voix de la Ville	Collectif LES VOIX DE LA VILLE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
88	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
89	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
90	Confort moderne Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	11	N/A	N/A
91	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
92	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
93	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
94	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
95	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
96	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
97	Toute cette bravoure qui était en moi	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
98	Les Abysses de la BIS	RSU Radio Sorbonne Université	Society & Culture	7	Acast	73
99	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63
100	Ma Sœur Sauvage	Ma Sœur Sauvage	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	63

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