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 Oct 2026

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10/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
2	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
9	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
10	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
11	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
14	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
18	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	84
19	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
22	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
24	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
26	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
29	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
34	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	3	ART19	58
35	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
36	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
37	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
38	Kendall Rae Details temporarily unavailable	Kendall Rae	Documentary	90	N/A	N/A
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
41	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
43	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
44	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
48	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
49	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
50	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
51	Far Away, Up Close: Global Stories from The Carter Center	The Carter Center	Society & Culture	2	Libsyn	68
52	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
54	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	10	Libsyn	62
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
58	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
59	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	170	Spreaker	38
60	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
61	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
62	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
63	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
64	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
68	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
69	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
70	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
72	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
74	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
75	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
77	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
78	Here Be Monsters	Here Be Monsters	Society & Culture	155	Squarespace	73
79	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
80	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
86	Theo Von - Biography Flash	Liquid Studios	Society & Culture	167	Megaphone	58
87	Taming Lyons	Autonomous	Society & Culture	11	Acast	89
88	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
89	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	2	Captivate	73
90	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
91	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
92	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
94	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
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
96	After The Hatch: Fly Fishing Stories from Big Sky Country & Beyond	Steve Hoovler	Documentary	4	Unknown	63
97	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
98	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
99	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
100	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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