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 08 May 2026

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05/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:11

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
6	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
17	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
23	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
24	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
28	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
32	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
40	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
41	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
42	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
43	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
44	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
45	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
47	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
51	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
55	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
59	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
60	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
61	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
62	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
63	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
65	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
66	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
69	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
70	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
71	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
72	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
73	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
74	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
75	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
77	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
78	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
81	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
82	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
83	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
85	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
87	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
88	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
89	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
90	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
91	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
92	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
93	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
94	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
95	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
96	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
97	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
98	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
99	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
100	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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