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Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 5, 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

What Now? with Trevor Noah | Michael Che: The Unspoken Rules of Comedy

Freakonomics Radio · 10 min

#2

The Mysterious Map to a Toddler’s Past Life| The Reincarnation Records

The Telepathy Tapes · 54 min

#3

The Basement: Brad Olsen | Hitler’s Escape and the Road to Antarctica

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 2 h 30 min

#4

What if your brother jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge?

This Is Actually Happening · 59 min

#5

#445 - The Banker's Breakaway Civilization & Who Really Runs the World | Catherine Fitts

Danny Jones Podcast · 3 h 09 min

#6

He Fought the Sinaloa Cartel for Years. Ketamine Saved Him.

The Hidden Third · 2 h 04 min

#7

Limitless

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen · 47 min

#8

“Earth-Shattering” Results Show Latino Voters Were Fed Up and Demanded Change

Latino USA · 24 min

#9

693. What’s Our Job as Humans Anymore?

Freakonomics Radio · 57 min

#10

Will the Real Owner Please Stand Up? | EP 3 | Curse of Miss America

Curse of: Miss America · 56 min

#11

Presenting: The Sporkful | Does The World Need A Better Tomato?

Decoder Ring · 37 min

#12

Texas Tech’s Big Bet | The Quarterback Who Became a Liability

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities · 27 min

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Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Sold a Story

APM Reports

— 2

Behind The Story Show

Jelani Gonzalez

▲ 2 3

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

— 4

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

▼ 2 5

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

— 6

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

▲ 1 7

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▲ 1 8

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▼ 2 9

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

— 10

Otherworld

Otherworld

— 11

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

— 12

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

— 13

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

▲ 1 14

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

▼ 1 15

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

— 16

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

— 17

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

— 18

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▲ 3 19

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

BBC Sounds

▼ 1 20

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

▲ 6 21

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▲ 2 22

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▼ 3 23

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▲ 26 24

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

▼ 2 25

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▼ 5 26

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

▲ 3 27

What It Was Like

Superreal

▲ 1 28

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

▼ 4 29

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▲ 2 30

Embedded

NPR

— 31

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

▼ 6 32

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

▲ 2 33

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 6 34

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 35

Question Everything

KCRW

▼ 2 36

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 3 37

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▲ 1 38

World of Secrets

BBC

▼ 1 39

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

▲ 1 40

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▼ 8 41

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▼ 5 42

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

▲ 4 43

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

▲ 4 44

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

— 45

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

▲ 8 46

Curse of: America's Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

▼ 1 47

The Speaker

KQED

▲ 3 48

Inheritance

BBC World Service

▼ 7 49

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▼ 7 50

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

▲ 1

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