Top Documentary Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 22, 2026.

1

Embedded

NPR

2

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

BBC Sounds

3

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

4

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

5

Otherworld

Otherworld

6

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

7

Paper Trail

ProPublica

8

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

9

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

10

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

11

Focus

KUOW News and Information

12

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

13

The Rewriting Humanity

Jim Walsh

14

Sold a Story

APM Reports

15

World of Secrets

BBC

16

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

17

What It Was Like

Superreal

18

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

19

My Brother David

iHeartPodcasts

20

The Speaker

KQED

21

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

22

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

23

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

24

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

25

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

26

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

27

Question Everything

Brian Reed

28

OnlyFantasy

Audible

29

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

30

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

31

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

32

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

33

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

34

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

35

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

36

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

37

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

38

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

39

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

40

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

41

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

42

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

43

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

44

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

45

Telephone Stories

Ninth Planet Audio

46

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

47

Homegoings with Myra Flynn

Myra Flynn

48

The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)

TTT Media

49

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

50

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

51

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

52

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

53

Noble

Audiochuck

54

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

55

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

56

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

57

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

58

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

59

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

60

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

61

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

62

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

63

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

64

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

65

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

66

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

67

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

68

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

69

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

70

Reflector

Longview

71

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

72

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

73

What I survived

Jack Laurence

74

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

75

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

76

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

77

Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

iHeartPodcasts

78

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

79

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

80

HABITUAL

Colorado Radio for Justice

81

The Brohio Podcast

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

82

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

83

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

84

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

85

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

86

Debt Heads

Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

87

The Commune

Stuff Audio

88

The Cryptid Podcast

The Cryptid Podcast - Daniel "Dano" Hamilton

89

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

90

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

91

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

92

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

93

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

94

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

95

If This Hall Could Talk

WQXR, Carnegie Hall

96

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

97

How I Survived

That's Life!

98

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

99

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

100

Power Plays

Human Rights Foundation

101

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

102

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

103

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

104

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

105

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

106

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

107

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

Secrets & Spies

108

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

109

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

110

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

111

Army of Normal Folks

iHeartPodcasts

112

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

113

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

114

The Flood

The Australian

115

Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast

Unincarcerated Productions

116

The Redefector

Audiochuck

117

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

118

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

119

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

120

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

121

The InBetween Official Podcast

The_InBetween

122

The Legend of SwordQuest

iHeartPodcasts

123

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

124

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

125

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

126

MiedoScope Historias de Miedo en Directo

Miedoscope

127

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

128

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

129

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

130

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

131

Salt of the Earth Farm Stories

Grigg Media

132

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

133

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

134

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

135

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

136

Chameleon: Gallery of Lies

Sony Podcasts

137

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

138

Death on the Lot

Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment

139

Paranormal Record: A True Ghost Story Podcast

Rob Constantine

140

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

141

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

142

On Assignment

Reuters

143

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

144

Lore Lodge Podcast

Lodge

145

Theo Von - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

146

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

147

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

148

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

149

Our Common Nature

WNYC

150

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

151

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

152

Talk Tracks

TTT Media

153

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

154

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

155

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

156

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

157

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

158

A Whole Other Country

Marfa Public Radio

159

Pipeline

Daily Mail

160

Alabama Astronaut

Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs

161

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

162

Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story

Vanity Fair

163

The Improvement Association

Serial Productions & The New York Times

164

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

165

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166

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

167

Fringe Network: Alien State

Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment

168

Outlawed

Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz

169

The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome

Brazen

170

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

171

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

172

Kendall Rae

Kendall Rae

173

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

174

On Solid Ground

Atlantic Re:think and Walmart

175

The Unstoppable Vote

The Center for Election Innovation & Research

176

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

177

True Creeps: True Crime, Ghost Stories, Cryptids, Horrors in History & Spooky Stories

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

178

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

179

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

180

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

181

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

182

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

Byte & Pieces

183

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

184

Pop Mystery Pod

Tess Barker

185

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

186

Jay Shetty - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

187

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

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

188

Cosmic Peach

Julia Hamilton

189

Threshold

Auricle Productions

190

Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History

Geno Samuel

191

The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop

The Washington Post

192

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

193

The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh

Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci

194

Deep Secrets

NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC

195

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

196

Penny Royal

Nathan Isaac

197

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

198

Surviving Bob Jones University: A Christian Cult

Andrew Pledger

199

Small Town Monsters Broadcast Network

stmbroadcastingnetwork

200

Hooked on Freddie

Audible

201

Catastrophic Failure

Times Union

202

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

203

Howl

Boise State Public Radio

204

Odessa

The New York Times

205

Taming Lyons

Autonomous

206

The Red Treehouse: Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night

Will Soto

207

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro | Futuro Studios

208

Paranoid American

Thomas Gorence

209

On Our Watch

KQED

210

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

211

Investigation Chancla

Mama Chancla

212

In God's Name: An Unseen Cult

Grace Elizabeth

213

Arcane Carolinas

Arcane Carolinas

214

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

215

Heroes Behind Headlines

Heroes Behind Headlines

216

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

217

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

218

La Minute Géographie

La Minute Géographie

219

Strangeology

Strangeology Podcast

220

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

221

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

222

Stealing Superman

iHeartPodcasts

223

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

224

Extreme

BBC

225

Fat Leonard

Brazen

226

Inheriting

NPR

227

As Irmãs

Chico Felitti

228

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

229

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

230

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

231

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

232

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

233

Storytime

Storytime

234

Collapse: Disaster in Surfside

Treefort Media & Miami Herald

235

Death in Westminster

Planet B Productions

236

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Dr. Ed Hasan

237

Lake Effect: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

JHughes Productions

238

Black Girl Missing

Feminista Jones, Asa Todd, Niki Irene

239

Trapped in Treatment

iHeartPodcasts and Warner Bros

240

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

241

Diggin' Oak Island

Dave McBride

242

The Experiment

The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

243

The Jeff-alytics Podcast

AH Datalytics

244

Sorry About The Kid

CBC

245

Hidden Cults

Nik Hunter

246

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

247

Mystery Archives Episodes

Mystery Archives Episodes

248

Scary but True Campfire Stories

Matthew S Newbold

249

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

250

True Stories with Seth Andrews

Seth Andrews

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