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 Nov 2025

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11/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 215

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:49:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. David & Jay Green (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Acast (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
7	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
8	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
10	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
11	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
14	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
15	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
18	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
25	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
31	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
34	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
38	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
40	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
51	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
52	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
53	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	565	Spreaker	74
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
56	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
57	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
58	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
59	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
60	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
61	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
62	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
63	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
64	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
65	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
66	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
67	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
68	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
69	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
73	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
74	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
75	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
76	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
80	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
82	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
83	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
87	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
88	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
89	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
90	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
91	Past Medical History: The Story of EMS	Nova Sequence Studio \| Long Pause Media \| FlightBridgeED	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	79
92	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
93	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
94	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	342	Acast	64
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
96	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
98	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
99	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
100	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52

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