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 23 Sep 2026

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09/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 109

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:36:00

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (2 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. BFMTV (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Ausha (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	213	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
6	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
8	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
10	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
12	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	19	Acast	68
13	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
14	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
15	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
16	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
19	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
20	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
21	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
22	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
23	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	291	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
25	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	16	Acast	90
26	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
27	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
28	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
29	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
30	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
31	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
32	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
33	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
35	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	957	Spreaker	64
36	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
37	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
38	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	29	Spotify for Podcasters	38
39	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
40	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
41	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
43	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
44	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	63
45	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	23	Acast	58
46	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	518	Audiomeans	84
47	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
48	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
49	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
50	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
51	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
52	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	71	Spotify for Podcasters	48
53	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
54	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
55	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
56	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
57	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	2	Podcastics	69
58	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
59	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
60	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
61	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
62	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
63	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
64	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	30	Ausha	89
65	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
66	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
67	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
68	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
70	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
71	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
72	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
73	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	11	Audiomeans	68
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
75	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
76	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
77	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
78	Morgana	Storielibere.fm	Society & Culture	57	Megaphone	48
79	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
80	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Les icebergs ÉPOUVANTABLES de Creepy Machine	Creepy Machine	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
83	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
84	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
85	Bleue comme Mars	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	74
86	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
87	Os Segredos da Seita do Yoga	Observador	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	58
88	Juifs, Musulmans: tenir ensemble	Chahut Media	Society & Culture	3	Captivate	52
89	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
90	Et néanmoins la poésie...Philippe Jaccottet	Chahut Média	Society & Culture	4	Captivate	52
91	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
92	La Voix des Oublié.e.s	Romain Rossard et Agathe Gallo du Média Quartier Libre	Society & Culture	15	Spotify for Podcasters	32
93	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
94	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
95	Solastalgie	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	16	Audiomeans	73
96	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
97	Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere	ARD	Society & Culture	8	Bayerischer Rundfunk	48
98	Right Where You Are Sitting Now	Ken Eakins	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	62
99	Les Désaxé•es	Les Désaxé•es	Society & Culture	6	Vodio	79
100	Sur la route de l'horreur	Happy Villains Corp.	Society & Culture	100	Unknown	48

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