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 Sep 2025

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09/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 102

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:35:24

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. ARD (2 shows)

4. TVONEAR (2 shows)

5. majelan (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (20 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
11	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
12	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
15	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
16	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
17	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
20	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
21	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
22	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
23	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
24	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
25	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
28	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
29	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
30	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
32	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
33	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
34	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
35	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
36	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
37	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
38	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
39	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
40	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
41	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
42	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
43	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
44	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
45	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
46	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
47	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
48	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
49	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
50	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
51	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
52	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
53	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
54	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
55	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
56	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
57	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
58	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	37
59	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
60	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
61	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
62	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
63	Une fausse couche comme les autres	majelan	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	38
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
65	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
66	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
67	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
69	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
70	Het geluk van Limburg \| De losse eindjes van Frans Pollux	NPO Luister / HUMAN	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	69
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Les grandes histoires de l’est	Est Republicain/Republicain Lorrain/Vosges Matin	Society & Culture	76	Acast	89
73	Echo System by Cercle	Cercle	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
74	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
75	Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere	ARD	Society & Culture	7	Bayerischer Rundfunk	48
76	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
77	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
78	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
79	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
80	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
81	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
82	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
83	Révolutions philosophiques	majelan X	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	69
84	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
85	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
86	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
87	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
88	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
89	Je suis migrant·e	ProjetM	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	59
90	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
91	Les conférences de la Fondation Inalco	Inalco	Society & Culture	17	Acast	53
92	Amphi 25 : parlons discriminations	Amphi 25 : parlons discriminations	Society & Culture	34	Ausha	73
93	Gabalier - Hinter der Lederhose	ARD	Society & Culture	7	Bayerischer Rundfunk	42
94	Paroles d'Inventaire	SIP BFC	Society & Culture	4	Podcastics	69
95	Rudolf Hess, le dauphin et héritier d'Hitler	Théo Salvi	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	38
96	Métamorphoses urbaines - une enquête sonore des villes à l'âge industriel	Service Patrimoine culturel - Département de l'Isère	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
98	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
99	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
100	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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