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 Oct 2026

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10/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 96

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:32:28

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. BFMTV (2 shows)

5. Making Waves (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. BBC (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	141	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	59	Audiomeans	73
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
6	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
7	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
10	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
12	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
13	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
14	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
15	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
16	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
17	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
18	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
19	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
22	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	299	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
24	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
25	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
26	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
28	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	69
29	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
30	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	974	Spreaker	64
31	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
34	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
35	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
37	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
38	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	172	Spotify for Podcasters	28
39	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
40	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
43	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
44	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
45	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	7	Podcastics	69
46	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
47	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
48	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
50	L'Odyssée de James Joyce	Laura El Makki & David Federmann	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
51	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
52	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
53	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
54	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
55	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	127	BBC	38
57	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
58	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
59	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
60	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	34	Spotify for Podcasters	22
62	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	38
63	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
64	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
65	Под куполом	Ivan Makridin	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	53
66	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
67	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	73
68	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
70	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
71	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	68
72	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
73	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
74	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
75	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
76	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
77	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
78	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
79	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	64	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
81	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
82	Réel média	Réel média	Society & Culture	8	Acast	43
83	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
84	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	63
86	Morgana	Storielibere.fm	Society & Culture	58	Megaphone	48
87	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
88	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
89	ドーナツ～このポッドキャストはSNSです	朝日新聞ポッドキャスト	Society & Culture	71	Omny Studio	48
90	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
91	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
93	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	83
94	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
95	Plante Verte	Leila	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	73
96	Nos Chemins de Liberté	Mairie de Plouguerneau	Society & Culture	23	Podcastics	74
97	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
99	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
100	Tribadour, la bande originale des vies lesbiennes	Adeline LMX	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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