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 Aug 2026

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08/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 108

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:35:28

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (13 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Transistor (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	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	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
8	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
10	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
12	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	22	Acast	68
13	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
16	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
17	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
20	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
21	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
22	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
23	Juifs, Musulmans: tenir ensemble	Chahut Media	Society & Culture	3	Captivate	52
24	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
27	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
28	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
30	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
31	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
32	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
34	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
35	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
36	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
37	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
38	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
39	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
40	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
41	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
42	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
43	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
44	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
45	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
46	Ex-oeco	Louise Germain	Society & Culture	39	Acast	84
48	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
49	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
50	Les Désaxé•es	Les Désaxé•es	Society & Culture	6	Vodio	79
51	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
52	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
53	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
54	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
55	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
56	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
57	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
58	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
59	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
60	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
61	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
62	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
63	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
65	(De eso no se habla)	(De eso no se habla)	Society & Culture	41	PRX	69
66	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
67	Prenderse Fuego: Las Voces de Pedro Lemebel	Podium Podcast Chile	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	38
68	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	34	Spotify for Podcasters	22
69	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
70	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
71	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
72	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
74	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
75	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
76	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
77	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
78	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
79	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
80	Réparer les violences	La Maison des femmes	Society & Culture	7	Acast	84
81	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
82	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
83	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
84	Territoires en résistance	Terres de luttes	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	17
85	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
86	Power Girls Club by Jho,	Jho,	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	63
87	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
88	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
89	Storie per Dormire Bene Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Storie per Dormire bene	Documentary	36	N/A	N/A
90	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
91	ゆとりっ娘たちのたわごと	ゆとたわ	Society & Culture	600	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
93	WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!	The Galaga Guy	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	63
94	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
95	Luso Bribes	Gabrielle Hlt	Society & Culture	22	Ausha	73
96	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
97	O Professor e os Meninos: uma História de Abusos (UOL Prime)	UOL	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	48
98	Less than 2 percent	Chayn	Society & Culture	6	Podcast.co	69
100	Une vie, une histoire	Par Milim de Myriam Levain et Elisa Azogui-Burlac	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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