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 Jul 2026

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07/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 103

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:35:08

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. Making Waves (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. BBC (4 shows)

Rank	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	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
6	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
10	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
12	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
13	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
14	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
19	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
23	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
24	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
25	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
26	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
27	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
28	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
29	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
30	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
31	Le Tour de France avec Sully	We Tell Stories	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	48
32	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
33	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
34	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
35	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
36	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
37	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
38	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
39	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
40	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
41	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
42	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
43	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
44	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
45	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
46	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
47	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
48	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
49	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
50	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
51	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
52	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
53	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
54	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
55	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
56	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
57	Territoires en résistance	Terres de luttes	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	17
58	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
59	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
60	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
61	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
63	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
64	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
65	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
66	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
67	NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind	NRC	Society & Culture	30	ART19	83
68	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
69	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
70	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
71	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
72	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
73	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
74	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
75	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
76	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
77	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
80	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
81	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
82	Ensemble derrière les barreaux	Yann Besson & Ilona Cathelin	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
83	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
84	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
85	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
86	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
87	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
88	Elles en Mayenne	Elles en Mayenne	Society & Culture	60	Spotify for Podcasters	53
89	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
90	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
91	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
92	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
93	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
94	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
95	L'Art Diplomatique	L'art Diplomatique	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	Um Rei na Boca do Inferno	Observador	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
97	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
98	Histoires vraies	LuFreDaph	Society & Culture	2	Spotify for Podcasters	48
99	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
100	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43

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