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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 30, 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

S2 E4: What Can You Do for My Black Children?

Sold a Story · 27 min

#2

The Spooky Saga of the Icelandic Dracula

Decoder Ring · 51 min

#3

Inside Trump’s Futile Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

Paper Trail · 34 min

#4

692. What Will A.I. Do to (and for) Human Creativity?

Freakonomics Radio · 59 min

#5

Episode 2: Karat and Schtick

METRO with Sarah Koenig · 40 min

#6

Do Birthmarks Carry Evidence of a Past Life?

The Telepathy Tapes · 51 min

#7

Jack Parsons: Sex Magic, Aleister Crowley & the Road to NASA

Theories of the Third Kind · 1 h 18 min

#8

Episode 191 - The Lakehouse Pt. 2

Otherworld · 34 min

#9

What if a peptide stole your sanity?

This Is Actually Happening · 1 h 11 min

#10

#443 - Ex-Banker Exposes Who Trump, Elon & Netanyahu Actually Work For | Simon Dixon

Danny Jones Podcast · 3 h 16 min

#11

The Lying Mouth Slays the Soul

Question Everything · 47 min

#12

Episode 1: Nice to Meet You

METRO with Sarah Koenig · 16 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

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

— 2

Sold a Story

APM Reports

— 3

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

— 4

Otherworld

Otherworld

— 5

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

▲ 1 6

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▼ 1 7

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

— 8

Behind The Story Show

Jelani Gonzalez

▲ 1 9

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

▲ 1 10

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

▼ 2 11

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

▲ 1 12

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

▲ 1 13

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

▼ 2 14

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

▲ 2 15

What It Was Like

Superreal

— 16

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▲ 5 17

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

▼ 3 18

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 1 19

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 1 20

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

▼ 1 21

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

BBC Sounds

▼ 1 22

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▲ 1 23

Embedded

NPR

▼ 1 24

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▲ 3 25

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

▲ 4 26

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▼ 1 27

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▲ 22 28

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▼ 2 29

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

▼ 5 30

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▼ 2 31

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▼ 1 32

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 33

Question Everything

KCRW

▲ 25 34

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

▼ 2 35

World of Secrets

BBC

▼ 2 36

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▲ 5 37

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▲ 2 38

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

▼ 1 39

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▲ 13 40

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

— 41

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

▼ 3 42

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▼ 8 43

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

▲ 2 44

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 9 45

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

▼ 9 46

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

▲ 2 47

The Speaker

KQED

▼ 3 48

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

▲ 28 49

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

▲ 8 50

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

▼ 8

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