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 Dec 2025

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12/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 123

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:33:58

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Hélène Aguilar (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
10	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
11	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
15	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
16	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
22	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
25	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
26	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
29	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
30	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
31	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
34	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
35	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
36	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
37	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
40	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
41	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
42	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
43	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
44	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
45	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
46	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
47	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
48	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
49	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	53
50	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
51	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
52	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	37
53	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
54	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
55	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
56	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
57	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
58	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
60	Lang Déléyé si Servis Kabaré	Béatrice Velin-Cassim et Juliette Pierron-Rauwel	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
61	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
62	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
63	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
64	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
65	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	57	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
66	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
68	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	143	Ausha	63
69	人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材	厭世姬＆邊角料	Society & Culture	208	Firstory	43
70	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
71	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
72	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
73	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
74	Aangereden	Radio 1	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
75	Backstage, derrière le micro	Benoit Thièbe	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	78
76	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	35	Podcastics	69
77	L'Arche de Noé	Caroline Coldefy	Society & Culture	6	Audiomeans	49
78	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
79	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
81	La Fucking Condición Humana	El Extraordinario	Society & Culture	84	Spreaker	68
82	Сказки Дядюшки Зомбака	Zavtracast	Society & Culture	14	Blubrry Podcasting	89
83	J'aime la chasse? Journal	Kathleen Fortin	Society & Culture	9	podCloud	79
84	Un village électrique	EDF -	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	63
85	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
86	Révolutions philosophiques	majelan X	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	69
87	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
88	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
89	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
90	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
92	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
93	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
94	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
95	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
96	Тюремный подкаст	Поехавший	Society & Culture	134	mave	73
97	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
98	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
99	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
100	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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