Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. 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 06 Sep 2026

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09/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:48:30

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
6	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
7	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
9	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
13	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
18	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
22	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
23	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
24	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
30	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
31	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
32	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
33	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
42	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
44	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
46	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
51	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
52	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
53	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
57	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
62	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
63	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
64	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
68	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
73	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
76	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
77	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
78	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
79	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
80	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	486	Omny Studio	68
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
82	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
83	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
84	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
85	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
86	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
87	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
89	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
91	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
92	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
93	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
94	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
95	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
96	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
98	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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