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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 9, 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

Where is Austin Tice?: Those who know

Embedded · 34 min

#2

A Button is a Promise

Hyperfixed · 36 min

#3

The Boy Who Remembered Dying | The Reincarnation Records

The Telepathy Tapes · 35 min

#4

Chapter 4: Revelations

Reaching Out · 40 min

#5

689. Here’s Why Your Hamburger Just Got So Pricey

Freakonomics Radio · 49 min

#6

Where Is Austin Tice?: 8. Those Who Know

I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice? · 34 min

#7

What if you left the church only to find hell next door?

This Is Actually Happening · 57 min

#8

The Herrington Denial

Sound, Light & Frequency · 1 h 23 min

#9

Chapter 3: Between the Acts

Reaching Out · 25 min

#10

Chapter 1: Katabasis

Reaching Out · 38 min

#11

The Basement: Ed Barnhart | Lost Cities, Botflies, and a Magic Number

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · 3 h 17 min

#12

#437 - "From Deep Space" New Iran UFO Incident No One Can Explain | Darcy Weir

Danny Jones Podcast · 3 h 27 min

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The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

— 2

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 11 3

Sold a Story

APM Reports

▼ 1 4

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

▼ 1 5

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

— 6

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

— 7

Otherworld

Otherworld

— 8

Paper Trail

ProPublica

▼ 4 9

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

▼ 1 10

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

BBC Sounds

▼ 1 11

Embedded

NPR

▲ 1 12

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

▲ 11 13

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

▼ 3 14

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

▼ 3 15

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

▲ 3 16

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

▼ 1 17

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

▼ 3 18

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

▼ 1 19

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

▲ 9 20

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

▼ 4 21

Question Everything

Brian Reed

▲ 4 22

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

▼ 3 23

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

▼ 3 24

World of Secrets

BBC

▲ 2 25

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

▼ 4 26

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

▲ 3 27

The Speaker

KQED

— 28

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

▼ 4 29

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

▼ 7 30

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

— 31

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

— 32

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

▲ 13 33

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

▼ 1 34

The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)

TTT Media

— 35

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

▲ 2 36

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

— 37

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

▲ 2 38

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

▲ 8 39

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

▲ 1 40

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

▼ 7 41

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

▲ 3 42

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

▼ 7 43

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

— 44

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 36 45

What It Was Like

Superreal

▼ 7 46

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

▲ 30 47

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

▼ 5 48

Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine

DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios

▼ 7 49

Noble

Audiochuck

▲ 1 50

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

▼ 3

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