Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 8, 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

694. Does Democracy Really Need Elections?

Freakonomics Radio · 1 h 04 min

#2

Heavy is the Head that Refuses to Share the Crown

METRO with Sarah Koenig · 49 min

#3

Atlantis Left Its Technology in Egypt

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 40 min

#4

The Dark Side of Disney: Executives Arrested, Hidden Tunnels & Conspiracy Theories

Theories of the Third Kind · 1 h 05 min

#5

#446 - Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Escape Plan & the Doomsday Psyop | Bek Lover

Danny Jones Podcast · 2 h 57 min

#6

Why Europe wants to rely less on US tech companies

The Documentary Podcast · 17 min

#7

Limitless

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen · 47 min

#8

What if your brother jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge?

This Is Actually Happening · 59 min

#9

What Are Demons?

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World · 2 h 01 min

#10

Inside The CIA’s Bin Laden Unit: Zero Dark Thirty, Enhanced Interrogation & 9/11 | Alfreda Scheuer

Dalton Fischer Podcast · 3 h 45 min

#11

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

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 2 h 30 min

#12

I Exposed Russell Brand. But He's Just The Start | Daniel Sloss

Heretics | Andrew Gold · 1 h 01 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

—
2

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▲ 2
3

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

▼ 1
4

Sold a Story

APM Reports

▼ 1
5

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

—
6

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

▲ 3
7

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

▼ 1
8

Otherworld

Otherworld

▼ 1
9

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

▼ 1
10

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

—
11

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

—
12

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

▲ 1
13

What It Was Like

Superreal

▲ 3
14

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▼ 2
15

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

—
16

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▲ 4
17

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 3
18

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

—
19

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 2
20

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▼ 1
21

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

BBC Sounds

▲ 8
22

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▲ 4
23

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▼ 2
24

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

—
25

Embedded

NPR

▲ 3
26

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3
27

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▼ 5
28

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▼ 1
29

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 4
30

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

—
31

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▲ 4
32

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

▲ 1
33

Question Everything

KCRW

▼ 1
34

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

▲ 11
35

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

▼ 4
36

World of Secrets

BBC

▼ 2
37

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

—
38

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▲ 1
39

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 3
40

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

▲ 10
41

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

▲ 8
42

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

—
43

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▼ 5
44

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

▼ 4
45

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

▲ 6
46

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▲ 1
47

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

▼ 6
48

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

▼ 5
49

The Brohio Podcast

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

▼ 5
50

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

▼ 2

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