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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 12, 2026

Best Documentary Podcasts

The top 100 Documentary shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending Documentary episodes

The episodes everyone is playing today. Tap to listen.

#1

690. It’s Show Business, Baby!

Freakonomics Radio · 1 h 01 min

#2

Chapter 4: Revelations

Reaching Out · 40 min

#3

Chapter 3: Between the Acts

Reaching Out · 25 min

#4

Chapter 1: Katabasis

Reaching Out · 38 min

#5

#438 - "The End Is Near" Ex-Scientologist Explains Their #1 New Threat | Aaron Smith-Levin

Danny Jones Podcast · 2 h 19 min

#6

The Titanic Never Sank

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 34 min

#7

The Boy Who Remembered Dying | The Reincarnation Records

The Telepathy Tapes · 35 min

#8

What if you left the church only to find hell next door?

This Is Actually Happening · 57 min

#9

Cocaine Mummies

Theories of the Third Kind · 58 min

#10

Chapter 2: Blue Boy

Reaching Out · 40 min

#11

689. Here’s Why Your Hamburger Just Got So Pricey

Freakonomics Radio · 49 min

#12

Guillermo del Toro on Why His Pan's Labyrinth Is More Relevant than Ever

Latino USA · 29 min

New in Documentary

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

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The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

— 2

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

— 3

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

— 4

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

— 5

Otherworld

Otherworld

▲ 1 6

Sold a Story

APM Reports

▼ 1 7

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

▲ 1 8

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▲ 1 9

I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?

BBC Sounds

▲ 1 10

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

▲ 1 11

Embedded

NPR

▲ 1 12

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 5 13

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

— 14

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

▲ 1 15

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▼ 1 16

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

— 17

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▲ 21 18

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

— 19

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▲ 14 20

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 3 21

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

— 22

Question Everything

Brian Reed

▼ 2 23

World of Secrets

BBC

— 24

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

▼ 2 25

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 6 26

The Speaker

KQED

▼ 1 27

What It Was Like

Superreal

▲ 1 28

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

▼ 1 29

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▼ 3 30

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

▲ 2 31

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

▼ 1 32

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

▼ 1 33

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▲ 1 34

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

▼ 10 35

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

▲ 1 36

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 5 37

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

▼ 2 38

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

▼ 1 39

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

▲ 8 40

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

▼ 11 41

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

▲ 7 42

The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)

TTT Media

▼ 3 43

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▲ 2 44

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 4 45

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▼ 1 46

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

▼ 3 47

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

▲ 2 48

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

▼ 6 49

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

▼ 3 50

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 4

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