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 Oct 2026

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10/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 111

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:32:03

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. majelan (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	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	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
10	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
11	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
14	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
17	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
18	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
19	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
20	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
21	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	298	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
24	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
25	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
26	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
27	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
28	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	69
29	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
30	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	25	Acast	58
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
35	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	28
36	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
37	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
38	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
39	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
40	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
41	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
43	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	973	Spreaker	64
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	125	BBC	38
45	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
46	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
47	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	73
48	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	69
49	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
51	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
52	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
53	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
54	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
55	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
56	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
57	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
58	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
59	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
60	Toutes une montagne	Les Gypaètes Poilues	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	68
61	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
62	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	48
67	Tech Bro Topia	Deutschlandfunk	Society & Culture	9	Deutschlandradio	63
68	Une fausse couche comme les autres	majelan	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	38
69	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
70	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
71	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	36	Podcastics	63
72	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
73	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
74	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
75	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
76	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	38
77	La jungle des miroirs	Louise	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
78	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
79	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	68
81	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
82	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
83	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
84	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
85	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
86	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
87	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	168	Omny Studio	69
88	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
89	Blast - La première Gilet jaune du dernier rond-point	Franck Dépretz, France Timmermans, Baptiste Veilhan	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	49
90	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
91	A Vida Dupla do Espião Traidor	Observador	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	58
92	Parole aux réfugié·e·s	France terre d'asile	Society & Culture	10	Podcastics	84
93	NS-CLIQUEN Von Menschen und Mördern	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	Society & Culture	23	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	53
94	L'Eclaireur des Soignants	MACSF Exercice Professionnel	Society & Culture	1	Podcastics	73
95	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
96	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
97	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	34	Spotify for Podcasters	22
98	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
100	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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