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 Oct 2026

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10/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 102

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:33:09

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (15 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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
3	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
4	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
5	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
8	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
10	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
12	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
13	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
14	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
15	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
16	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
17	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
18	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
19	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
20	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
21	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
23	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
24	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
25	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
26	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
27	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
28	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
29	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	28
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
33	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
34	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
35	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
36	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
37	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
38	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
39	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
40	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
42	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	7	Podcastics	69
43	Toutes une montagne	Les Gypaètes Poilues	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	68
44	L'Eclaireur des Soignants	MACSF Exercice Professionnel	Society & Culture	1	Podcastics	73
45	Je suis migrant·e	ProjetM	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	53
46	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
48	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
49	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
50	Le souffle des cimes	Parc national de la Vanoise	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	48
51	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
53	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
54	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
55	Les icebergs ÉPOUVANTABLES de Creepy Machine	Creepy Machine	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
56	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
57	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
58	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
59	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
60	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
61	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	68
62	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
63	La Diagonale des Autres	LAETITA LANTIERI	Society & Culture	18	Unknown	63
64	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
65	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
66	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
67	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
68	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
69	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
70	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
71	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
72	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	144	Ausha	58
73	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
74	Под куполом	Ivan Makridin	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	53
75	XXX	Akina Nagano	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	33
76	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
77	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
78	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
79	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
80	Territoires en résistance	Terres de luttes	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	17
81	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
82	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
83	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
84	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
85	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
86	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
87	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
88	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
90	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
91	Science Interdite	Erwan Prieur	Society & Culture	18	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
93	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
94	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
95	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
96	Parole aux réfugié·e·s	France terre d'asile	Society & Culture	10	Podcastics	84
97	La Manufacture d'idées	unknown_author	Society & Culture	98	Unknown	38
98	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	13	Spreaker	74
99	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
100	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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