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 29 Sep 2026

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09/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:42:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. ART19 (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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
4	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
5	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
8	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
11	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
15	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	3	PRX	59
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
21	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
25	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
26	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
34	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
35	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
39	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
40	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
41	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
42	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
45	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
46	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
50	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
52	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
53	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
54	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
55	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
58	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
60	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
63	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
64	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
65	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
66	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
69	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	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
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
74	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
79	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
80	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
81	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
82	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
83	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
84	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
85	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
87	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
88	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
92	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
94	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
95	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	161	Omny Studio	69
97	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
98	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
99	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
100	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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