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 21 Aug 2025

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08/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:33:41

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (2 shows)

4. Al Jazeera Network (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
2	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
3	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
7	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
8	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
12	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
13	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
14	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
15	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
16	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
20	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
21	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
24	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
25	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
26	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
27	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
28	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
29	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
30	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
31	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
33	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
36	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
37	Sociétés	Yoann Missolo	Science	29	Acast	89
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
40	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
41	Gisors et le trésor des Templiers	Jocelyne Giani	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	43
42	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
43	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
44	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
45	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
46	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
47	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
48	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
49	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
50	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
51	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
52	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
53	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
54	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
55	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
56	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
57	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
58	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
59	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
60	Le conflit mot à mot	Akadem	Society & Culture	5	Unknown	43
61	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
62	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
63	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
66	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
67	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
68	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
69	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
70	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
71	Parentèle : en quête d'une famille qui nous ressemble	Maude Boutin St-Pierre	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
72	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
74	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
75	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
76	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
77	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
78	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
79	وثائقي ستيب نيوز	Step News Agency	Society & Culture	33	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
81	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
82	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
83	Espèce de chômeur !	Solidarités nouvelles face au chômage (SNC)	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
84	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
85	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
86	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
87	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
88	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
89	Deep Doku	Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg	Society & Culture	130	Unknown	48
90	juste un moment	ipso santé	Society & Culture	5	Acast	74
91	Van Dis Ongefilterd	Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis	Society & Culture	70	Omny Studio	89
92	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
93	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
94	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
95	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
97	La Buissonnière	Clap Audio	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	89
98	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
99	The Method	Louie Media & Les Glorieuses	Society & Culture	7	Acast	74
100	EMPREINTES	Vitré Communauté	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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