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 27 janv. 2026

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01/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 117

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:32:41

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (15 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (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	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
4	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
9	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
13	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	17	Acast	79
14	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
19	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
20	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
21	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
22	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63
25	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
26	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
27	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
29	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
33	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
34	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
38	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
41	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
42	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
43	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
44	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
47	SEXTORTION	Lars van Eijden & Rick Uilenbroek / Audiohuis	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	69
48	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
50	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
51	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
52	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
53	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
54	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
55	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
56	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
57	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
58	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
59	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
60	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
61	Identités	Dakitse ou Eloge	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
62	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
63	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
64	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
65	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
66	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
67	Os Segredos da Seita do Yoga	Observador	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	58
68	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
71	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
72	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
73	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
74	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
75	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
77	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
78	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
79	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
80	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
81	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
82	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
83	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
84	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
85	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
86	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
88	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
90	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
91	Capsule Bpi	Bibliothèque publique d'information	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
92	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
93	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
94	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
95	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
96	VIE DE QUINQUA Le Podcast	VIEDEQUINQUA	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	63
97	Bak’s To Congo	Christelle Bakima	Society & Culture	18	Spotify for Podcasters	63
98	X Docs Қазақша	X Dox	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	63
99	Parole aux réfugié·e·s	France terre d'asile	Society & Culture	10	Podcastics	84
100	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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