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 19 Oct 2026

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10/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:45:03

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. TTT Media (2 shows)

3. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
2	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	269	WideOrbit	48
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
7	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
8	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
11	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
12	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
19	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	84
20	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
22	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	122	BBC	38
25	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
29	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
31	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
35	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	89	Unknown	63
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
40	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
41	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
42	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
43	Kendall Rae Details temporarily unavailable	Kendall Rae	Documentary	90	N/A	N/A
44	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
47	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
53	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
54	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
55	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
56	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
59	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
60	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
61	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
62	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
63	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	11	Libsyn	62
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
65	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
66	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
67	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
68	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
69	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
72	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
73	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
76	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	174	Spreaker	38
77	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
78	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
79	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
80	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
81	Here Be Monsters	Here Be Monsters	Society & Culture	155	Squarespace	73
82	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
83	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
85	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
86	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
87	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
88	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
89	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
92	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	667	Acast	69
94	Far Away, Up Close: Global Stories from The Carter Center	The Carter Center	Society & Culture	2	Libsyn	68
95	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
98	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
100	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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