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 29 Mar 2026

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03/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 95

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:33:21

Top 5 authors

1. RTBF (3 shows)

2. Louie Media (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. StudioFact Audio (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (13 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	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
5	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
9	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
10	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
11	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
14	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
21	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
22	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
23	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
24	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
25	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
29	De voix en voies	OPCO Santé	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
33	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
35	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
36	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
37	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
38	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
39	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	301	Spotify for Podcasters	32
40	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
41	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
42	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
43	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
44	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
45	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	22	Acast	68
46	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
47	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	38
48	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
49	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
50	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
51	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
52	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
53	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
54	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
58	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
59	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
60	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
61	Les Hommes et le Féminisme	Constance Lacorne I Agence Mobu	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	79
62	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
63	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
64	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
65	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	13	Spreaker	74
66	Ma Bataille	Usbek et Rica	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	59
67	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
69	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
70	Dans mon étude	Chambre des notaires de la Gironde	Society & Culture	9	Podcastics	49
71	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
72	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
74	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
75	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
76	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
77	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
78	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
79	Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit	Veridox	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
80	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
81	Toute cette bravoure qui était en moi	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
82	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
83	Ex-oeco	Louise Germain	Society & Culture	39	Acast	84
84	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	58
85	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
86	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
87	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	69
88	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
89	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
90	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
91	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
92	Storie per Dormire Bene Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Storie per Dormire bene	Documentary	36	N/A	N/A
93	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
94	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
95	Ma langue maternelle n'est pas la langue de ma mère	Alice MAGDELAINE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	79
96	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
97	Métamorphoses urbaines - une enquête sonore des villes à l'âge industriel	Service Patrimoine culturel - Département de l'Isère	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	38
98	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
99	Solastalgie	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	16	Audiomeans	73
100	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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