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 14 Jun 2026

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06/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:47:19

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. ART19 (6 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
9	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
10	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
11	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
17	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
18	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
26	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
27	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
28	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
32	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
37	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
39	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
40	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
41	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
45	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
46	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
51	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
52	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
57	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
58	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
59	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
61	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
62	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
64	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
65	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
66	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
67	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
68	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
71	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
72	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
73	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
77	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
79	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
80	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
84	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
85	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
86	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
88	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
89	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73
90	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
91	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
92	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
93	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
94	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
96	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
97	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
98	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
99	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
100	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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