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 22 Apr 2026

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04/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 108

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:32:38

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (2 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. Audiomeans (15 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Transistor (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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
7	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
8	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
12	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
14	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
17	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
18	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
19	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
22	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
23	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
24	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
27	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
28	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
29	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
30	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
31	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
32	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
33	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
34	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
37	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
38	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
39	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
40	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
41	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
42	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
43	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
44	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
45	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
46	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
47	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
48	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
49	De voix en voies	OPCO Santé	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
50	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
51	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
52	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
53	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
54	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
55	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
56	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
57	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
58	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
59	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
62	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
63	Comment on s'aime ?	Klaam	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
64	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
65	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
66	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
67	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
68	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	53
69	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
70	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
71	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
72	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
73	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
74	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
75	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
76	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
77	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
78	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
79	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
80	Lang Déléyé si Servis Kabaré	Béatrice Velin-Cassim et Juliette Pierron-Rauwel	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
81	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
82	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
84	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
85	Frietcast	Petra De Pauw	Society & Culture	139	Libsyn	73
86	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
87	La ville devant soi	Making Waves	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	59
88	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
89	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
90	Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités	Samy Scoop	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
91	Sortir de l'urgence	FHF (Fédération Hospitalière de France)	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	84
92	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
93	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
94	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
95	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
96	Demi-Sel // Le podcast qui révèle la Bretagne	Région Bretagne	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	79
97	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	122	Acast	43
98	Les Voix de la Ville	Collectif LES VOIX DE LA VILLE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
99	Tout est affaires	Outre-mer la 1ère	Society & Culture	9	Octopus	43
100	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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