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 Nov 2025

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11/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 123

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:34:31

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. StudioFact Audio (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Megaphone (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
16	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
17	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
18	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
19	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
22	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
23	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
26	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
27	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
28	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
31	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	58
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
33	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
34	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
36	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
37	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	798	Audiomeans	74
38	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
39	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
40	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
41	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
42	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
43	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
44	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
45	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
46	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
47	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
48	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
50	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
51	Entre Deux Vagues	Chloe Leger	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	64
52	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
53	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
54	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
55	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	13	Spreaker	74
57	L'heure de Loire	Vins de Loire	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	79
58	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
60	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
61	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
62	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
63	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
64	LES YEUX DANS LES VIEUX	Le Poste General	Society & Culture	9	Acast	53
65	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
66	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
67	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	48
68	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
69	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
70	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
71	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
72	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
73	Disidencias por Dentro	Akorde Podcast y Fundación CORE	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	64
74	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
75	Addictions 2.0	IEJ	Society & Culture	4	Acast	59
76	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	63
77	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
78	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
79	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
80	ROC Taiwan : la singularité d'une île	Muriel Couton / Virginie Jortay	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
81	Les casseroles palestiniennes	Basile Crespin et Louis Le Mesre de Pas	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	53
82	OUTLAWS: The Good Thief	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
83	Turbulences : traverser les troubles anxieux	Julien Morissette (Transistor Média)	Society & Culture	1	Transistor	73
84	OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
85	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
86	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
87	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
88	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
89	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
90	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
91	Tè ! lo podcast	CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura	Society & Culture	58	Podcastics	53
92	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Acast	73
93	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	18	Acast	79
94	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
95	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
96	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
97	"Victimes, leur vie a basculé"	TELEPARIS GALAXIE	Society & Culture	6	Acast	63
98	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
99	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
100	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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