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 21 Mar 2026

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03/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:47:02

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Al Jazeera Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
14	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
16	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
22	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
26	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
28	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
29	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
30	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
34	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
35	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
37	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
41	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
47	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
48	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
53	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
55	Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations	CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk	Society & Culture	16	ART19	83
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
59	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
60	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
61	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
62	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
67	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
68	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
69	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
70	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
71	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
72	SMOKE SIGNALS The Little Shawn Files	shawnpen1	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	42
73	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
74	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
76	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
77	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
78	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
79	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
80	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
81	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
82	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
83	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
84	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
85	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
86	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
87	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
89	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
91	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	567	Spreaker	74
92	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
93	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
94	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
95	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
96	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
97	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
99	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
100	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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