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 Sep 2026

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09/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:45:44

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
5	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
9	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
14	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
16	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
19	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
24	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
30	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
31	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
32	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
35	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
36	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
37	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
38	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
45	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
52	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
53	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
56	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
57	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
59	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
62	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
65	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
66	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
67	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
68	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
69	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
74	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
75	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
76	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
77	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
78	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
79	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
80	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
81	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
82	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
83	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
84	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
85	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
86	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
87	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
88	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
89	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
94	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
95	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
96	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
97	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
98	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
100	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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