Top Documentary Podcasts in New Zealand

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for New Zealand, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked October 24, 2026.

1

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

2

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

BBC Sounds

3

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

4

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

5

World of Secrets

BBC

6

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

7

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

8

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

9

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

10

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

11

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

12

Sold a Story

APM Reports

13

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

14

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

15

Otherworld

Otherworld

16

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

17

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

18

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

19

What It Was Like

Superreal

20

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

21

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

22

Missing Debbie | Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

23

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

24

What I survived

Jack Laurence

25

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

26

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

27

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

28

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

29

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

30

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

31

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

32

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

33

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

34

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

35

SAS: The Shadow War

The Independent / Aurra Studios

36

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

37

Inheritance

BBC World Service

38

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

39

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

40

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

41

Embedded

NPR

42

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

43

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

44

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

45

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

46

Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!

Byte & Pieces

47

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

48

Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt

RNZ

49

Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story

Vanity Fair

50

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

51

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52

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

53

The Vegan Report

Rayane Laddi

54

The Flood

The Australian

55

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

56

Heaven's Helpline

NZ Herald

57

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

58

How I Survived

That's Life!

59

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

60

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

61

The Response

Shareable

62

The Commune

Stuff Audio

63

Safe Recovery Podcast LEAVING Alcoholics Anonymous

Monica Richardson

64

The Experiment

The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

65

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

66

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

67

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

bgty

68

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

69

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

70

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

71

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

72

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73

The Speaker

KQED

74

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

75

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

76

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

77

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

78

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

79

Seelenfänger

Bayerischer Rundfunk

80

Lignes de crêtes

Making Waves

81

Question Everything

Brian Reed

82

Monsters Lounge

Monsters Lounge

83

Act Two With Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage

84

Together with Safeguarding Children

Willow Duffy

85

Water

newsroom.co.nz

86

Gay Girl Gone

CBC

87

InSight Crime Podcast

InSight Crime

88

The Curious Soul

Cristina Malavenda & Marty Go

89

OnlyFantasy

Audible

90

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

91

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

92

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

93

Paper Trail

ProPublica

94

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

95

The Stolen Children of Aotearoa

RNZ

96

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

97

Springerstiefel – Alpha oder Opfer?

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

98

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

99

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

100

True Story

Stuff Audio

101

Hateland

ARD

102

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

103

The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop

The Washington Post

104

The Professor: Hunting for the Mafia's Missing Masterpiece

Brazen

105

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

106

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

107

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

108

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

109

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

110

AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories

True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories

111

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

112

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

113

Pipeline

Daily Mail

114

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

115

Reflector

Longview

116

Adventures in Nutopia

David Bramwell

117

JOURNEY

Ryan Wolf

118

Project 98.9

Leigh Stafford

119

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

120

Sorry About The Kid

CBC

121

Dear Jane

The Spinoff

122

Once a Panther

Stuff Audio

123

Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país

Podium Podcast

124

Spicy Alien After Dark

Alien

125

Podme Dokumentär

Podme

126

Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs

Secrets & Spies

127

Larm vi minns

Brander & Trausti

128

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

129

The Lodge

RNZ

130

Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

131

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

132

The Zandland Show

Zandland

133

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

134

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

135

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

136

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

137

UNDERCURRENTS

MCC Ontario

138

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

139

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

140

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

141

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

142

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

143

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

144

Air Crash Chronicles

Air Crash Chronicles

145

Clasificado: HUMO, Murder and Silence in El Salvador

Sonoro

146

Il suffit d'écouter les femmes

INA

147

Democracy After Disaster

Kate Lawrence

148

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

149

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

150

Threshold

Auricle Productions

151

Noble

Audiochuck

152

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

153

Precipice

Mandy Jakich

154

State of the Unknown | Documentary Stories of Real Unexplained Encounters

Robert Barber

155

Profile

BBC Radio 4

156

Days Like These

ABC Australia

157

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

158

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

159

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

160

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

161

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

162

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur

163

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

164

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

165

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

166

The Wandering Road

Chris

167

ベルのドライブスルーラジオ

ベル - Vell

168

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

169

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

170

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

171

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

172

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

173

100 Years of ZB

Newstalk ZB

174

The District

Stuff Audio

175

NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind

NRC

176

We Want Them Infected Podcast

Dr. Jonathan Howard and Wendy Orent

177

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

178

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

179

Magtfuld

RADIO IIII

180

バービーとおしんり研究所

TBS RADIO

181

Paddy's Podcast

Paddy O'Gorman

182

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

183

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

184

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

185

Yeti

BBC Radio 4

186

Matters of Consequence: Meaningful Conversations for Curious People

Michael Hanf

187

The Gap

LADbible

188

Dark Asia with Megan

Dark Asia with Megan

189

Collapse

Stuff Audio

190

Outlawed

Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz

191

Adopt Perspective Adoption Podcast

Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow for Jigsaw Queensland

192

老高和小茉最新更新

老高与小茉高速更新

193

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

194

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

195

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

196

Mythology And Folklore For Sleep

The Sleepy Mythkeeper

197

Political Lens

XLab Network

198

The Brohio Podcast

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

199

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters

200

The Wild Dispatch

Robin Warman

201

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

202

Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace

iHeartPodcasts

203

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

204

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

205

Al Jazeera Documentary

Al Jazeera Network

206

Podme Verkliga Fall

Podme

207

Kod: Katastrof

Podplay

208

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative

209

Who Robs A Banksy?

Podimo & Message Heard

210

When We Were Wizards

Traction Media

211

Michelle Obama - Biography Flash

Liquid Studios

212

The Legend of SwordQuest

iHeartPodcasts

213

We the Unhoused

iHeartPodcasts

214

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

215

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

216

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

217

The Travel Podcast by ExcursionPass - 繁體中文

Excursion Pass Inc.

218

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

219

Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere

ARD

220

REICH – Das Geschäft mit dem Zweifel

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

221

RNZ100: A Century of Stories

RNZ

222

Coining It

Global

223

You Look Like Me

Louise McLoughlin

224

The JE Wilds Podcast

JE Wilds

225

Kickstart Crisis

Baja or Bust

226

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

227

楼兰出海观察

热点慢谈

228

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

229

Women at the helm

Cassie Mead

230

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

231

好色喔！禁羈相談室｜ BDSM 故事集

風木 & 小藤

232

Verbal Highs

Lewis Tennant

233

This Haunted Life

Adam Berry

234

Theorists Theorizing

Big Theory Podcasts

235

Disaster Hour

Ian Terbovich and Olivia Scarano

236

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

237

R.M.Williams OUTBACK

R.M.Williams Publishing

238

Rich Planet

Rich Planet

239

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

240

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

241

肥宅老司機

老司與老機

242

The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special

Wave Maker Media

243

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

244

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

245

Howard Stern - Biography Flash

Liquid Studios

246

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

247

The Good Trouble Show | Unidentified Flying Objects & UFO Disclosure

Matt Ford | UFO & UAP Investigative Journalist

248

Married to a sociopathic narcissist My story

Karla Diane

249

Abeceda strachu

Adam Miklica a Eduard Birke

250

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

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