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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 15, 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

When Reincarnation Leaves a Paper Trail | The Reincarnation Records

The Telepathy Tapes · 48 min

#2

The Basement: Michael Salla | Nordics, Grays, and the Secret Space Program

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 4 h 13 min

#3

13 to 29

Ear Hustle · 49 min

#4

Chapter 5: MDWIMD

Reaching Out · 39 min

#5

What if your body became the war zone?

This Is Actually Happening · 1 h 04 min

#6

690. It’s Show Business, Baby!

Freakonomics Radio · 1 h 01 min

#7

I Was Set Up by a Cartel. Now I’m Going to Federal Prison

The Hidden Third · 1 h 30 min

#8

Gandhi Never Said “Be the Change”

Decoder Ring · 1 h 00 min

#9

#439 - Bible Expert Rejects Religion After Decoding Ancient Amazon Language | Daniel Everett

Danny Jones Podcast · 2 h 48 min

#10

Ep 186 - Rotating Home

Otherworld · 1 h 12 min

#11

The Censorship School | Overhaul of Texas Tech

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities · 28 min

#12

Margaret Cho

Flightless Bird · 1 h 15 min

New in Documentary

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

#39 newThe Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

— 2

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

▲ 3 3

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

▼ 1 4

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▼ 1 5

Otherworld

Otherworld

▼ 1 6

Sold a Story

APM Reports

▲ 1 7

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

▼ 1 8

Paper Trail

ProPublica

— 9

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

— 10

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

BBC Sounds

— 11

Embedded

NPR

— 12

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

— 13

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

— 14

Deep Secrets

NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC

▲ 3 15

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

▼ 1 16

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

— 17

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 18

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▲ 17 19

The Speaker

KQED

▼ 1 20

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▲ 12 21

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

▲ 1 22

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 3 23

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

▲ 7 24

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

▲ 12 25

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

▼ 5 26

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▼ 3 27

World of Secrets

BBC

▼ 6 28

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 4 29

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▼ 3 30

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▲ 25 31

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▼ 6 32

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

▼ 1 33

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

▼ 6 34

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

▲ 3 35

Question Everything

Brian Reed

▼ 7 36

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▼ 7 37

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

▲ 70 38

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

▼ 5 39

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

▲ 1 40

What It Was Like

Superreal

▼ 1 41

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▲ 3 42

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

▼ 4 43

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

▲ 4 44

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

▲ 26 45

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

▼ 2 46

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

▲ 45 47

Noble

Audiochuck

▲ 5 48

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

▼ 6 49

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

▼ 15 50

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 9

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