Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 14, 2026

Best Documentary Podcasts

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

Trending Documentary episodes

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#1

695. Can the U.S. Close Its Fertility Gap?

Freakonomics Radio · 56 min

#2

#448 - Lost 6,000 Year Old 'Pyramid City' Just Found in North America | Luke Reagan

Danny Jones Podcast · 3 h 27 min

#3

The Man Who Lived Alone in the Woods for 27 Years

What It Was Like · 1 h 18 min

#4

Sleepy Fireplace Sounds and Enigmatic Historical Artifacts: Dodecahedrons, Lewis Chessmen...

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries · 2 h 03 min

#5

Benedict XVI on Aliens and the Vatican UFO Claims

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World · 1 h 39 min

#6

The Basement: Cassie Coppersmith | Ancient Sites That Rewrite Human History

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 3 h 03 min

#7

What if the lighthouse of your family went dark?

This Is Actually Happening · 1 h 10 min

#8

S2 E6: Get Ready!

Sold a Story · 27 min

#9

Could a Baseball Prodigy Be Lou Gehrig Reborn? | The Reincarnation Records

The Telepathy Tapes · 48 min

#10

The Locked Ward

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen · 42 min

#11

Living through the Gaza floods

The Documentary Podcast · 23 min

#12

Limitless

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen · 47 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

▲ 4
2

Sold a Story

APM Reports

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3

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

▼ 2
4

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▼ 1
5

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

▼ 1
6

Otherworld

Otherworld

—
7

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

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8

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

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9

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

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10

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

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11

Paper Trail

ProPublica

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12

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▲ 3
13

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

▼ 1
14

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

▼ 1
15

What It Was Like

Superreal

▲ 14
16

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 2
17

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

▲ 13
18

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▼ 1
19

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

▼ 1
20

Question Everything

KCRW

▲ 4
21

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▼ 5
22

Embedded

NPR

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23

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

▲ 3
24

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 4
25

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▼ 4
26

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 7
27

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▼ 4
28

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

BBC Sounds

—
29

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

▼ 4
30

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▲ 1
31

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

▲ 3
32

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

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33

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 4
34

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▲ 1
35

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

▼ 8
36

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

▲ 2
37

Intrigue

BBC Radio 4

▲ 2
38

World of Secrets

BBC

▲ 3
39

The Brohio Podcast

Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy

▼ 6
40

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

▲ 9
41

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▲ 2
42

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▲ 4
43

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1
44

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

▲ 4
45

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

▼ 9
46

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

▼ 6
47

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

▲ 4
48

What I survived

Jack Laurence

▼ 3
49

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 2
50

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

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