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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 21, 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 if your father was a mass murderer?

This Is Actually Happening · 1 h 06 min

#2

Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy? (Update)

Freakonomics Radio · 48 min

#3

#441 - DARPA Insider: Steve Jobs CIA Deal, Stargate Argentina & Facebook Weapon | Sharon Weinberger

Danny Jones Podcast · 2 h 47 min

#4

The Basement: Jeffrey Kripal | Inside the Archives of the Impossible

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 3 h 09 min

#5

Episode 188 - Susan

Otherworld · 55 min

#6

Case #36: Travis

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast · 50 min

#7

Big Foot Day

Flightless Bird · 1 h 05 min

#8

Make Miss America Great Again | EP 1 | Curse of Miss America

Curse of: Miss America · 57 min

#9

Destino: desconocido

Radio Ambulante · 52 min

#10

691. Is This What a “Good Billionaire” Looks Like?

Freakonomics Radio · 43 min

#11

United States of Ghosts

The Paranormal Podcast · 41 min

#12

S2 E2: The Remedy Is Always Teaching

Sold a Story · 27 min

New in Documentary

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

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Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Sold a Story

APM Reports

— 2

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

— 3

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▲ 1 4

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

▼ 1 5

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

— 6

Otherworld

Otherworld

— 7

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

— 8

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

▲ 6 9

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▼ 1 10

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

▲ 3 11

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

▼ 1 12

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

BBC Sounds

▼ 3 13

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 2 14

Embedded

NPR

▼ 2 15

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

▲ 1 16

What It Was Like

Superreal

▼ 1 17

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

— 18

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

▲ 49 19

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

▲ 1 20

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

▲ 21 21

Behind The Story Show

Jelani Gonzalez

▲ 111 22

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

▼ 3 23

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

▼ 5 24

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▼ 3 25

World of Secrets

BBC

▼ 3 26

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

▼ 3 27

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 7 28

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▼ 3 29

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▼ 5 30

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 4 31

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▲ 17 32

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

▼ 4 33

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▼ 6 34

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▼ 5 35

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 12 36

The Speaker

KQED

▼ 5 37

Kendall Rae

Kendall Rae

▲ 1 38

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

▼ 2 39

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▲ 5 40

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

▼ 10 41

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

▼ 4 42

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▼ 9 43

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

▼ 11 44

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

▲ 1 45

Question Everything

Brian Reed

▼ 6 46

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 11 47

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

▼ 1 48

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

▼ 5 49

Noble

Audiochuck

▲ 3 50

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

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