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 26 Jun 2026
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France
Society & Culture
Documentary
06/26/2026
Average data
Episodes: 108
Frequency: every 27 days
Duration: 00:33:48
Top 5 authors
1. Louie Media (5 shows)
2. Paradiso Media (2 shows)
3. RTL (2 shows)
4. BBC World Service (2 shows)
5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)
Top 5 hosting
1. Acast (19 shows)
2. Audiomeans (15 shows)
3. Spotify for Podcasters (14 shows)
4. Ausha (8 shows)
5. BBC (8 shows)
| Rank | Logo | Name | Artist | Main Category | Eps | Hosting | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator | France Inter | Documentary | 134 | N/A | N/A |
| 2 |  | Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 208 | Acast | 79 |
| 3 |  | Ça peut vous arriver | RTL | Society & Culture | 133 | Audiomeans | 49 |
| 4 |  | Archives | Neoxi | Society & Culture | 69 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 5 |  | La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir | The French Whisperer | Society & Culture | 75 | Megaphone | 62 |
| 6 |  | La fabrique du mensonge | France Télévisions | Society & Culture | 39 | Octopus | 59 |
| 7 |  | La société de minuit | Tatiana Benhamou | Society & Culture | 100 | Acast | 73 |
| 8 |  | Ou peut-être une nuit | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 6 | Acast | 69 |
| 9 |  | PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies | Minuit | Society & Culture | 368 | Audion | 58 |
| 10 |  | Injustices | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 60 | Acast | 73 |
| 11 |  | Rôles Modèles | ELLE | Society & Culture | 15 | Acast | 90 |
| 12 |  | Le bureau des complots | RTBF | Society & Culture | 52 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 13 |  | The Documentary Podcast | BBC World Service | Society & Culture | 2000 | BBC | 33 |
| 14 |  | Inspirants | François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info | Society & Culture | 8 | Audiomeans | 54 |
| 15 |  | Destins Extraordinaires | Europe1 | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 43 |
| 16 |  | Une lettre d'Amérique | RTL | Society & Culture | 101 | Audiomeans | 54 |
| 17 |  | Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée | Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée | Society & Culture | 75 | Spotify for Podcasters | 22 |
| 18 |  | CANAL 16 | SNSM | Society & Culture | 38 | Acast | 79 |
| 19 |  | PRESS ROOM | Esther Press Room | Society & Culture | 20 | Ausha | 94 |
| 20 |  | Remonter la piste | Nastasia Time | Society & Culture | 11 | Spotify for Podcasters | 63 |
| 21 |  | Dark Stories | Dark Stories | Society & Culture | 160 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 22 |  | La dame du CDI | Nathanael | Society & Culture | 28 | Spotify for Podcasters | 38 |
| 23 |  | Thread Horreur By Delkor | Delkor | Society & Culture | 287 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 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 |  | L'Affaire | Paradiso Media | Society & Culture | 73 | Acast | 79 |
| 27 |  | Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher | Society & Culture | 1005 | Simplecast | 38 |
| 28 |  | Espace Documentaire | Espace Documentaire | Society & Culture | 949 | Spreaker | 64 |
| 29 |  | The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable | Ky Dickens | Society & Culture | 88 | Acast | 84 |
| 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 |  | Gilles Galloux | Gilles Galloux | Society & Culture | 9 | Transistor | 59 |
| 32 |  | La Minute Géographie | La Minute Géographie | Society & Culture | 24 | Spotify for Podcasters | 22 |
| 33 |  | Anaïs Lenar | Anaïs Lenar | Society & Culture | 22 | Acast | 58 |
| 34 |  | JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia | Isabelle Farrugia | Society & Culture | 18 | Acast | 68 |
| 35 |  | OnlyFantasy | Audible | Society & Culture | 29 | ART19 | 69 |
| 36 |  | Otherworld | Otherworld | Society & Culture | 258 | WideOrbit | 48 |
| 37 |  | Entre | Louie Media | Society & Culture | 61 | Acast | 94 |
| 38 |  | ET PAN ! | ET PAN ! | Society & Culture | 4 | Ausha | 64 |
| 39 |  | Uncanny | BBC Radio 4 | Society & Culture | 170 | BBC | 38 |
| 40 |  | Le Procès Harelle | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 9 | Audiomeans | 53 |
| 41 |  | Oh my planète | ADEME | Society & Culture | 41 | Audiomeans | 79 |
| 42 |  | Sound, Light & Frequency | iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 32 | Omny Studio | 83 |
| 43 |  | THE DAISY AGE PODCAST | The Daisy Age Podcast | Society & Culture | 12 | Spotify for Podcasters | 43 |
| 44 |  | Personally: Agent Layla | CBC | Society & Culture | 68 | Triton Digital | 63 |
| 45 |  | Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit | Veridox | Society & Culture | 22 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 46 |  | La Lignée | Julien Goetz | Society & Culture | 5 | RSS.com | 58 |
| 47 |  | Power Girls Club by Jho, | Jho, | Society & Culture | 5 | Ausha | 63 |
| 48 |  | OÙ EST LE BEAU ? | Hélène Aguilar | Society & Culture | 516 | Audiomeans | 84 |
| 49 |  | Manger les riches | Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias | Society & Culture | 21 | RSS.com | 48 |
| 50 |  | Great Lives | BBC Radio 4 | Society & Culture | 410 | BBC | 28 |
| 51 |  | Le monde selon Trump | BFMTV | Society & Culture | 29 | Simplecast | 49 |
| 52 |  | L'art de l'attention | Fanny Auger | Society & Culture | 24 | Ausha | 89 |
| 53 |  | Focus: Adults in the Room | KUOW News and Information | Society & Culture | 17 | Omny Studio | 68 |
| 54 |  | Radio Ambulante | My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 369 | Omny Studio | 73 |
| 55 |  | Swingers | BBC Radio Wales | Society & Culture | 7 | BBC | 43 |
| 56 |  | Journal Intime | Paradiso Media | Society & Culture | 42 | Acast | 89 |
| 57 |  | Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine | FeuilleBlanche | Society & Culture | 10 | Audiomeans | 68 |
| 58 |  | Racines & Récits | UPro-G | Society & Culture | 28 | Podcastics | 69 |
| 59 |  | Stuff Matters with Ed Conway | Sky News | Society & Culture | 9 | Captivate | 42 |
| 60 |  | Les Enfermé·es | Making Waves | Society & Culture | 9 | Transistor | 59 |
| 61 |  | La Fille sur le canapé | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 10 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 62 |  | This Is Actually Happening | Audible | Society & Culture | 526 | ART19 | 68 |
| 63 |  | Free From Desire | Aline Laurent-Mayard | Society & Culture | 17 | Acast | 79 |
| 64 |  | Au cœur des archives | Europe 1 | Society & Culture | 100 | Audiomeans | 59 |
| 66 |  | À Brûler Sans Ouvrir | Nouvelles Écoutes | Society & Culture | 13 | Audiomeans | 83 |
| 67 |  | Happy End | Sarah Dumont | Society & Culture | 33 | Podcastics | 63 |
| 68 |  | Inheritance: Samsung | BBC World Service | Society & Culture | 11 | BBC | 63 |
| 69 |  | Il suffit d'écouter les femmes | INA | Society & Culture | 6 | Octopus | 59 |
| 70 |  | Blast - Infernet | Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info | Society & Culture | 11 | Transistor | 59 |
| 71 |  | Blast - Adolescence | Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert | Society & Culture | 8 | Transistor | 54 |
| 72 |  | Tous Parano | Tous Parano | Society & Culture | 59 | Podcastics | 89 |
| 73 |  | The Missing Cryptoqueen | BBC Sounds | Society & Culture | 25 | BBC | 33 |
| 74 |  | Le Monde en Cartes | Le Monde en Cartes | Society & Culture | 26 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 75 |  | We the Unhoused | iHeartPodcasts | Society & Culture | 130 | Omny Studio | 48 |
| 76 |  | VYRAJE | Sarah Bardin | Society & Culture | 28 | Ausha | 79 |
| 77 |  | Indonesia In-depth | In-depth Creative | Society & Culture | 65 | Spotify for Podcasters | 28 |
| 78 |  | CARIATIDES, DU COEUR À LA VOIX | Lehna | Society & Culture | 3 | Ausha | 38 |
| 79 |  | Que História! | BBC Brasil | Society & Culture | 40 | BBC | 33 |
| 80 |  | Country of Dust | Country of Dust | Society & Culture | 19 | Buzzsprout | 38 |
| 81 |  | Aiku - Vidéos Storytelling | AikuLive | Society & Culture | 24 | Spotify for Podcasters | 38 |
| 82 |  | Where the River Took Us | Texas Monthly | Society & Culture | 10 | Spreaker | 64 |
| 83 |  | Johnathan Walton Media | Johnathan Walton | Society & Culture | 47 | RedCircle | 73 |
| 84 |  | Isonomia, le podcast. | Isonomia_pure | Society & Culture | 1 | Spotify for Podcasters | 43 |
| 85 |  | Improbable | BBC Mundo | Society & Culture | 10 | BBC | 39 |
| 86 |  | Power Plays | Human Rights Foundation | Society & Culture | 6 | Captivate | 63 |
| 87 |  | Grenzgänger – The Pioneer Spezial | The Pioneer | Society & Culture | 11 | Acast | 79 |
| 88 |  | La Voz de la Generación Irrompible | Yhon Angel | Society & Culture | 120 | Spotify for Podcasters | 32 |
| 89 |  | 101 Visages | Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza | Society & Culture | 16 | Ausha | 63 |
| 90 |  | La Relève | Mediapart | Society & Culture | 5 | Audiomeans | 49 |
| 91 |  | A bout de Taf | Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel | Society & Culture | 81 | Acast | 69 |
| 92 |  | Latitudes Pyrénées | Anne-Sophie Estruch | Society & Culture | 53 | Ausha | 53 |
| 93 |  | 7 jours sur Terre | 7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay | Society & Culture | 119 | Simplecast | 53 |
| 94 |  | More Muslim | More Muslim | Society & Culture | 12 | Captivate | 73 |
| 95 |  | Alain face à Duhamel | BFMTV, BFM | Society & Culture | 6 | Simplecast | 59 |
| 96 |  | Wind of Change | Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify | Society & Culture | 16 | Megaphone | 53 |
| 97 |  | Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable | BLYND | Society & Culture | 20 | Audiomeans | 73 |
| 98 |  | Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités | Samy Scoop | Society & Culture | 5 | Acast | 63 |
| 99 |  | The Slow Newscast | The Observer | Society & Culture | 438 | Acast | 74 |
| 100 |  | Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973) | INA | Society & Culture | 7 | Octopus | 59 |
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