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 28 Sep 2026

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09/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:43:56

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
2	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
3	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
4	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
7	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
11	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
16	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	3	PRX	59
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
22	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
23	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
24	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
30	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
32	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
37	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
38	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
39	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
40	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
47	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
48	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
49	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
50	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
51	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
52	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
56	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
57	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
59	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
60	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
61	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
63	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
64	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
67	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
68	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
70	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
71	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
78	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
81	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
82	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
85	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
86	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
87	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
88	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
89	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
90	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
91	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
92	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
93	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	486	Omny Studio	68
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
96	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
100	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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