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 25 Apr 2026

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04/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 124

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:38:26

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Making Waves (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. RTL (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Transistor (6 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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
4	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
7	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
8	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
10	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
12	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
13	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	22	Acast	68
14	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
15	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
21	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
22	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	38
27	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
28	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
29	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
30	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
31	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
32	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
33	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
34	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
35	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
36	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
37	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
38	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
39	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
40	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
41	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
42	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
43	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
44	Identités	Dakitse ou Eloge	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
45	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
46	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	301	Spotify for Podcasters	32
49	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
50	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	68
51	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
52	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
53	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
57	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63
58	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
61	Experience Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Free Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
62	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
63	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
64	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
66	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
67	Faire des sciences avec Star Wars Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
68	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Education	232	Ausha	43
69	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
70	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
71	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
72	Racines & Récits	UPro-G	Society & Culture	32	Podcastics	63
73	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
74	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
75	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
76	Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit	Veridox	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
77	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
78	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
79	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
80	Punjabi Lehar Podcasts	Punjabi Lehar	Society & Culture	12	RSS.com	32
81	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
82	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
83	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
84	Réparer les violences	La Maison des femmes	Society & Culture	7	Acast	84
85	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
86	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
87	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
88	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
89	INSPIRANT	Guillaume Descave	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	38
90	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
91	Mirada 25	SER Podcast	Society & Culture	42	Triton Digital	43
92	Tym World	Tym	Society & Culture	2	Acast	73
93	La révolution, et après ? Un podcast Frictions	Frictions	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	53
94	Une vie, une histoire	Par Milim de Myriam Levain et Elisa Azogui-Burlac	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	64
95	Faire vivre la campagne	Making Waves	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
96	Celles qui restent	Sarah Gay-Balmaz	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
97	Buena Pregunta	Florencia Narra	Society & Culture	8	Acast	73
98	De Onbekende Dode	Hart van Nederland	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	64
99	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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