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 23 Sep 2026

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09/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:43:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
18	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	3	PRX	59
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
20	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
26	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
29	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
30	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
32	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	823	Megaphone	53
38	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
41	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
42	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
43	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
44	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
45	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
46	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
48	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
52	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
53	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
54	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
55	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
56	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
57	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
58	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
59	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
60	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
61	Homegoings with Myra Flynn	Myra Flynn	Society & Culture	3	PRX	58
62	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
66	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
67	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
68	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
69	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
70	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
71	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	233	Acast	79
74	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
77	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
79	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
80	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
83	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
84	If This Hall Could Talk	WQXR, Carnegie Hall	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	69
85	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
86	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
87	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
88	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	486	Omny Studio	68
89	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
90	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
93	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
95	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
96	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
97	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
98	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
99	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
100	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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