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 12 Oct 2026

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10/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:44:58

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
9	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
11	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
12	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
17	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
22	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
25	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
26	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
27	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
32	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
34	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
35	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
40	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
43	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
44	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
46	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
51	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
52	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
56	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
57	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
60	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
61	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
62	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
63	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
64	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
65	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
66	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	3	ART19	58
69	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
70	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
71	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	10	Libsyn	62
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	After The Hatch: Fly Fishing Stories from Big Sky Country & Beyond	Steve Hoovler	Documentary	4	Unknown	63
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
75	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
76	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
77	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
78	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
79	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
80	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
81	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
82	Taming Lyons	Autonomous	Society & Culture	11	Acast	89
83	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
86	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
87	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
88	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
89	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
90	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
91	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
92	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
93	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
95	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
96	Kendall Rae Details temporarily unavailable	Kendall Rae	Documentary	90	N/A	N/A
97	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
98	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
99	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
100	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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