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 May 2026

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05/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 102

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:33:10

Top 5 authors

1. Inception Point AI (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. RTL (4 shows)

4. INA (3 shows)

5. RTBF (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (23 shows)

2. Acast (20 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Megaphone (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 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	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
3	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
4	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
5	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
6	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
18	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
20	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
21	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
22	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
23	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
24	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
25	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
26	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
27	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
28	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
31	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
32	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
33	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
37	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
38	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
39	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
40	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
41	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
42	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
43	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
44	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
45	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
46	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
47	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
48	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
49	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
50	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
51	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
52	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
53	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
54	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
55	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
56	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
57	Toute cette bravoure qui était en moi	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
58	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
59	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
61	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
62	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
63	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
64	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
65	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
66	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
67	Caetano Veloso - Biografia Relâmpago	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	53
68	Trump - Photo Op	RTL	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	54
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
71	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
72	Mesdames	Mélanie Legendre	Society & Culture	66	Ausha	73
73	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
74	Confort moderne Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	11	N/A	N/A
75	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
76	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
77	Sur la route de l'horreur	Happy Villains Corp.	Society & Culture	100	Unknown	48
78	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
79	Bella Poarch - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	72	Megaphone	63
80	Transmission	Collectif Transmission	Society & Culture	44	Ausha	63
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	Studio 56	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	63
83	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
84	Pixinguinha - Biografia Eterna	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	5	Megaphone	63
85	Djavan - Biografia Relâmpago	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	53
86	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
87	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
88	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
89	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
90	La tête haute	Charlotte Abramow	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	64
91	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
92	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
93	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	53
94	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
95	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
96	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
97	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
98	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
99	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
100	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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