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 25 Oct 2025

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10/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 236

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:49:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. The New York Times (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. SpectreVision Radio (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. PRX (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
6	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	375	Audioboom	62
8	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
10	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
11	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
12	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
14	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
19	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
21	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
22	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	109	BBC	38
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1198	Acast	59
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
38	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
39	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	208	Megaphone	32
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
42	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	9	Libsyn	52
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
44	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
47	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
49	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	272	Megaphone	32
50	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
51	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
52	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
53	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
54	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	527	Spreaker	43
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
59	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	707	Omny Studio	53
60	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
61	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
64	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
65	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	654	Acast	69
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
67	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
68	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
70	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
71	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
72	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
75	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
76	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
77	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
78	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
79	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
80	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
83	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
84	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
85	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
86	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
88	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
89	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	570	Spreaker	74
90	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
91	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
92	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
93	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
94	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	554	Spreaker	60
95	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
96	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
98	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
99	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
100	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68

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