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 17 Jul 2026

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07/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:46:24

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
8	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
9	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
11	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
13	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
15	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
17	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
21	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
22	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
27	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
29	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
31	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
33	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
35	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
38	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
40	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
46	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
47	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
51	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
53	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	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
56	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
60	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
61	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
62	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
66	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
68	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
69	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
70	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
71	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
72	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
73	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
74	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
76	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
77	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
80	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
81	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
84	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
85	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
86	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
87	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
88	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
89	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	714	Omny Studio	53
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
91	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
92	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
93	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
94	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
95	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
96	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
97	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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