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 Aug 2026

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08/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 109

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:34:20

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. RTL (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Ausha (14 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Transistor (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	51	Audiomeans	73
4	Chroniques Obscures	Neoxi	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
7	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
8	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
10	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
12	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
13	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
14	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
15	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
16	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
17	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
18	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
19	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
22	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
25	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
26	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
27	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	286	Spotify for Podcasters	32
28	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
29	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
30	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	948	Spreaker	64
31	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
32	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
33	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
34	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
35	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
36	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
37	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
38	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
41	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
42	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
43	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
44	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
45	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	117	Simplecast	53
46	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
47	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
48	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
49	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
50	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
54	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
55	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
56	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
58	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
59	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
60	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
61	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
64	(De eso no se habla)	(De eso no se habla)	Society & Culture	41	PRX	69
66	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	24	Transistor	63
67	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
68	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
69	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
70	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
71	Chroniques du Grand Domaine	Lili Sohn et Théo Boulenger	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
72	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
73	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
74	NOUS GUÉRIR	Alice Lefilleul et Malika Beloucif	Society & Culture	7	Transistor	59
75	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
76	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
77	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
78	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
79	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
80	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
81	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
82	La gestion de l'après	Chronostudio	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	42
83	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
84	Solastalgie	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	16	Audiomeans	73
85	EN FILIGRANE	En Filigrane.Podcast	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	43
86	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
87	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	45	Ausha	43
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
91	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
92	Complètement Toqués \| Le podcast de la gastronomie, les grands chefs de la région, leurs parcours, leurs engagements.	LYON 1ère	Society & Culture	205	Ausha	38
93	Osho's children	storielibere.fm	Society & Culture	22	Megaphone	54
94	Mirage	Laureline Dargery	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	94
95	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
96	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
97	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
98	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
99	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
100	Backstage, derrière le micro	Benoit Thièbe	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	78

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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