Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 11, 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 the lighthouse of your family went dark?

This Is Actually Happening · 1 h 10 min

#2

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

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 3 h 03 min

#3

#447 - NASA Study Confirms "Predatory" Plasma Beings & Von Braun's Alien Warning | Jay Anderson

Danny Jones Podcast · 3 h 28 min

#4

694. Does Democracy Really Need Elections?

Freakonomics Radio · 1 h 04 min

#5

The Locked Ward

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen · 42 min

#6

Greek Myths: Pandora, Danaïdes, Sisyphus, Icarus | Sleep Story, Human Voice, No AI

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries · 1 h 04 min

#7

Episode 193 - Hide and Seek

Otherworld · 43 min

#8

Canada's UFO Secrets

The Paranormal Podcast · 47 min

#9

My First Autopsy

Flightless Bird · 57 min

#10

The Wonderful World of Miss America | EP 4 | Curse of Miss America

Curse of: Miss America · 52 min

#11

Series 6: Case 1: The Cliffsend Haunting

Uncanny · 34 min

#12

Where does Joe stand on Trump? Midterm Review Show

The Know Rogan Experience · 1 h 37 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

▲ 2
2

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

—
3

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

▼ 2
4

Otherworld

Otherworld

—
5

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

▲ 2
6

Sold a Story

APM Reports

▼ 1
7

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

▲ 1
8

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

▼ 2
9

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

▲ 1
10

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

▼ 1
11

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

▲ 1
12

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

▼ 1
13

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▲ 18
14

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▼ 1
15

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

—
16

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▲ 8
17

What It Was Like

Superreal

▼ 3
18

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▲ 23
19

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 6
20

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▲ 20
21

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

▼ 4
22

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

▲ 38
23

Embedded

NPR

▼ 5
24

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

▼ 8
25

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 6
26

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

▼ 3
27

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

BBC Sounds

▼ 6
28

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▼ 6
29

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▼ 9
30

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

▼ 2
31

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▼ 2
32

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 6
33

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▼ 6
34

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

▲ 17
35

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
36

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

▼ 1
37

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3
38

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

▲ 20
39

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▼ 3
40

World of Secrets

BBC

▼ 8
41

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

▼ 11
42

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

▼ 4
43

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

▲ 1
44

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

▲ 4
45

What I survived

Jack Laurence

▲ 4
46

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

▼ 9
47

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

▼ 4
48

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▼ 3
49

OnlyFantasy

Audible Original

▲ 1
50

Question Everything

KCRW

▼ 8

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