Top Documentary Podcasts in New Zealand

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for New Zealand, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 23, 2026.

1

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

BBC Sounds

2

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

3

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

4

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

5

What I survived

Jack Laurence

6

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

7

World of Secrets

BBC

8

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

9

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

10

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

11

What It Was Like

Superreal

12

Embedded

NPR

13

100 Years of ZB

Newstalk ZB

14

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

15

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

16

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

17

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

18

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

19

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

20

The Flood

The Australian

21

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

22

Otherworld

Otherworld

23

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

24

OnlyFantasy

Audible

25

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

26

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

27

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

28

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

29

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

30

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31

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

32

Noble

Audiochuck

33

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

34

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

35

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

36

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

37

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

38

The Commune

Stuff Audio

39

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

40

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

41

The Stolen Children of Aotearoa

RNZ

42

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

43

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

44

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

45

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

46

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

47

Telephone Stories

Ninth Planet Audio

48

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

49

The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time

The Church Studio

50

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

51

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

52

Days Like These

ABC Australia

53

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

54

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

55

Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere

ARD

56

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

57

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

58

Paper Trail

ProPublica

59

RNZ100: A Century of Stories

RNZ

60

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

61

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

62

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

63

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

64

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

65

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

66

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

67

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

68

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

69

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

70

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

71

Springerstiefel – Alpha oder Opfer?

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

72

Legacy: Sports Stories

Stak

73

Dear Jane

The Spinoff

74

Water

newsroom.co.nz

75

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

76

Sold a Story

APM Reports

77

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

78

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

79

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

80

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

81

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

82

The Greatest Stories Never Told

Craig Clemens, Roger Love

83

The Lodge

RNZ

84

Pipeline

Daily Mail

85

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

86

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

87

Question Everything

Brian Reed

88

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

89

As Irmãs

Chico Felitti

90

The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior

RNZ

91

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

92

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

93

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

94

ARC

ARC

95

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

96

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

97

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

98

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

Secrets & Spies

99

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

100

How I Survived

That's Life!

101

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

102

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

103

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

104

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

105

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

106

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

107

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

108

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

109

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

110

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

111

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

112

Philippine Campfire Stories

Earl Jerico | The Pod Network

113

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

114

True Story

Stuff Audio

115

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

116

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

117

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

118

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

119

Profile

BBC Radio 4

120

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

121

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

122

On Assignment

Reuters

123

The Brohio Podcast

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

124

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

125

World in Progress

DW

126

Bizarre Verhalen

Jenneke

127

Once a Panther

Stuff Audio

128

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

129

Il suffit d'écouter les femmes

INA

130

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

131

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

132

The Spiritual Edge

The Spiritual Edge

133

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro | Futuro Studios

134

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

135

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

136

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

137

Extreme

BBC

138

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

139

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

140

Reflector

Longview

141

The Wild Dispatch

Robin Warman

142

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

143

JOURNEY

Ryan Wolf

144

Cruising | Queer History and Culture

Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity

145

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

146

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

147

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

148

The Story Of...

Regan Snyder

149

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150

Child

BBC Radio 4

151

Air Crash Chronicles

Air Crash Chronicles

152

Frietcast

Petra De Pauw

153

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王悠悠18号

154

The Fairshake Files

The Fairshake Files

155

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

156

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

157

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

Byte & Pieces

158

The District

Stuff Audio

159

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

160

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

161

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

162

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters

163

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

164

#SilasHorror

#SilasHorror

165

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

166

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

167

Diggin' Oak Island

Dave McBride

168

FBI Files

The FBI Files

169

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

170

I Was Actually There

ABC Australia

171

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

172

Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

173

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

174

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

175

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative

176

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

177

Lake Effect: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

JHughes Productions

178

Collapse

Stuff Audio

179

JULIE IN GENDERLAND

Julie Bindel

180

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

181

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

182

Heaven's Helpline

NZ Herald

183

バービーとおしんり研究所

TBS RADIO

184

Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt

RNZ

185

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

186

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

187

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

188

Jay Shetty - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

189

The Overturn

The Future Justice Project

190

What Happens Next?

Steve Morris

191

Collapse: Disaster in Surfside

Treefort Media & Miami Herald

192

Journal of Biophilic Design

Vanessa Champion, editor, Journal of Biophilic Design

193

State of the Unknown | Documentary Stories of Real Unexplained Encounters

Robert Barber

194

Spooky and Kooky

Spooky and Kooky

195

True Haunting Files

Lucien V. Crow

196

Beyond The Veil Podcast

Beyond The Veil Podcast

197

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

198

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

199

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

200

Hateland

ARD

201

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

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

202

Larm vi minns

Brander & Trausti

203

What The Hell Do I Know w/JB

Jason Becker

204

日本浮游

日本浮游

205

Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed

Lynn Studio

206

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

207

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朝日新聞ポッドキャスト

208

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

209

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

210

Kod: Katastrof

Podplay

211

Extraordinary Stories

Mamamia Podcasts

212

The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)

Foreign Policy magazine

213

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

214

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

215

Reasons We Serve: Police Careers & Officer Experience

Reasons We Serve

216

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

217

The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories

Becky

218

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

219

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

220

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

221

Understanding all in the Deep dive

Arko Chatterjee

222

Reporting; Depp v Heard

TBI Media

223

Documentary Storytellers

Chris King

224

The Chilling Podcast

Little Fang Media

225

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

226

The Speaker

KQED

227

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

228

夜航船

洛不知秋

229

At a Distance

The Slowdown

230

Utanför Murarna

Podme

231

Phantoms & Monsters Radio

Lon Strickler

232

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

233

The InBetween Official Podcast

The_InBetween

234

The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)

TTT Media

235

Frontlines of Journalism

BBC Radio 4

236

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

237

Dark Matters – Geheimnisse der Geheimdienste

SWR3, rbb24 Inforadio, Eva-Maria Lemke

238

A Whole Other Country

Marfa Public Radio

239

Storytime with Seth Rogen

Earwolf & Seth Rogen

240

Les Mystères des lieux

France Culture

241

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

242

Privateer Station: War In Ukraine

Privateer

243

Zombie Apocalypse Stories

Sezgin

244

NDR Feature Box

NDR

245

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

246

The Banksy Story

BBC Radio 4

247

Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"

Katy Shields

248

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

249

Beyond the Veil/ Unexplained Mysteries

Podgo

250

La Biblioteca de los Sueños: Documentales para Dormir

Olimpia Pérez

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