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 20 nov. 2025

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11/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 121

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:33:41

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. RTL (3 shows)

5. StudioFact Audio (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (19 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Ausha (14 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
14	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
15	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
16	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
21	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
22	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
26	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1006	Simplecast	38
29	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
30	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	143	Acast	73
33	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
34	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
35	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
36	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
37	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
38	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
40	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
41	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
42	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
43	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
45	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
46	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
47	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
48	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
49	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
50	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
51	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
52	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
53	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
54	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
55	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
56	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
57	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
58	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
59	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	379	Spreaker	84
60	Entre Deux Vagues	Chloe Leger	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	64
61	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
62	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
63	Tè ! lo podcast	CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura	Society & Culture	58	Podcastics	53
64	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
65	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	17	Acast	79
66	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
67	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
68	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
69	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
70	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
71	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
72	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
73	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
74	L'histoire de la Grande Guerre	Musée de la Grande Guerre	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	53
76	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
77	DES TRAINS PAS COMME LES AUTRES	TV ON EAR	Society & Culture	69	Audiomeans	58
78	"Victimes, leur vie a basculé"	TELEPARIS GALAXIE	Society & Culture	6	Acast	63
79	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
80	La Voix est Libre...et curieuse !	Katia Clot-Bouferrache	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
81	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
82	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
83	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
84	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
85	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
86	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
87	Våre steder Details temporarily unavailable	Karoline Birkeli-Gauss og Ragnhild Augustsen	Documentary	35	N/A	N/A
88	AU LONG	Society	Society & Culture	47	Acast	69
89	¿Quién dijo miedo?	Amnistía Internacional España	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	43
90	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
91	Du quai Branly au Bénin, la restitution du patrimoine africain	Sophie PILLODS	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	59
92	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
93	NUES	Mathilde-Elind (physiomathildeelind)	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	43
95	Here Be Monsters	Here Be Monsters	Society & Culture	155	Squarespace	73
96	L'heure de Loire	Vins de Loire	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	79
97	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
98	Le voyage intérieur de Lucie	Lucie Lanselle	Society & Culture	31	Podcastics	69
99	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
100	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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