Top Documentary Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked November 4, 2026.

1

Sold a Story

APM Reports

2

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

3

Behind The Story Show

Jelani Gonzalez

4

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

5

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

6

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

7

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

8

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

9

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

10

Otherworld

Otherworld

11

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

12

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

13

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

14

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

15

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

16

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

17

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

18

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

BBC Sounds

19

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

20

Paper Trail

ProPublica

21

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

22

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

23

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

24

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

25

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

26

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

27

What It Was Like

Superreal

28

Embedded

NPR

29

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

30

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

31

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

32

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

33

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

34

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

35

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

36

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

37

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

38

World of Secrets

BBC

39

Question Everything

KCRW

40

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

41

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

42

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

43

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

44

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

45

Inheritance

BBC World Service

46

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

47

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

48

Curse of: America's Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

49

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

50

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

51

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

52

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

53

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

54

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

55

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

56

The Speaker

KQED

57

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

58

Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine

DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios

59

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

60

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

61

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

62

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

63

The Guild of Ghostly Grounds

The Guild of Ghostly Grounds

64

Noble

Audiochuck

65

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

iHeartPodcasts

66

SNAPPED: The Podcast

Lucy Taylor

67

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

68

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur

69

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

70

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

71

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

72

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

73

Dispatches from the Divide

BYUradio

74

The Shrink Next Door

Audible Original | Bloomberg

75

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

76

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

77

OnlyFantasy

Audible Original

78

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

79

The Commune

Stuff Audio

80

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

81

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

82

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

83

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

84

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

85

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

86

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

87

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

88

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

89

Hysterical

Audible Original | Pineapple Street Studios

90

What I survived

Jack Laurence

91

The Powers of Darkness Podcast

Or Whatever Movies

92

Broken Badge

Broken Badge

93

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

94

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

95

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

Secrets & Spies

96

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

97

Lore Lodge Podcast

Lodge

98

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

99

Famously

The Upshot

100

Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations

CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk

101

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

102

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

103

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

104

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

105

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

106

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

107

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

108

Army of Normal Folks

iHeartPodcasts

109

The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

110

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

111

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

112

The Brohio Podcast

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

113

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

114

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

115

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

116

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

117

Spicy Alien After Dark

Alien

118

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

119

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

120

Adopted: The International Industry of Belonging

iHeartPodcasts

121

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

122

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

123

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

124

SAS: The Shadow War

The Independent / Aurra Studios

125

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

126

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

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

127

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

128

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

129

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

130

Taming Lyons

Autonomous

131

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

132

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

133

Dreadful, Inc. Presents: Unmarked Frequencies

Dreadful, Inc.

134

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

135

The Cryptid Podcast

The Cryptid Podcast - Daniel "Dano" Hamilton

136

Before We Go

Podcast Nation

137

Strangeology

Strangeology Podcast

138

FBI Files

The FBI Files

139

How I Survived

That's Life!

140

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

141

Not Special: A Liberty Speaks Show

Liberty Speaks | Herb Thompson & Corrie Thompson

142

Death on the Lot

Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment

143

On Adoption

Haley Radke Media Inc.

144

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

145

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

146

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

147

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

148

A Whole Other Country

Marfa Public Radio

149

The Redefector

Audiochuck

150

Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

151

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

152

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Original

153

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

154

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

155

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

156

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

157

Chameleon: Gallery of Lies

Sony Podcasts

158

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

159

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

160

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

161

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

162

Far Away, Up Close: Global Stories from The Carter Center

The Carter Center

163

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

164

Act Two With Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage

165

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

166

A Ghost Story

Forever Haunted Podcast Network

167

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

168

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

169

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

170

MiedoScope Historias de Miedo en Directo

Miedoscope

171

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

172

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

173

My Brother David

iHeartPodcasts

174

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

Byte & Pieces

175

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王悠悠18号

176

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

177

The Youth Development Center

NHPR

178

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

179

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

180

Harley Conversations

Guy Kiddey

181

On Solid Ground

Atlantic Re:think and Walmart

182

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative

183

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

184

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

185

A Peace of My Mind

John Noltner

186

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

187

Threshold

Auricle Productions

188

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

189

Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast

Unincarcerated Productions

190

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

191

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

192

A Diplomat Of The Outrageous Talk Show And Podcast

Darlinda Just Darlinda

193

Debt Heads

Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

194

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

195

Reflector

Longview

196

The Simply Audacious Podcast

Threat Loca

197

The Improvement Association

Serial Productions & The New York Times

198

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro | Futuro Studios

199

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

200

Trojan Wars

Oregon Public Broadcasting

201

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

202

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

Will Soto

203

Odessa

The New York Times

204

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

205

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

206

Extreme

BBC

207

Paranoid American

Thomas Gorence

208

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

209

Arcane Carolinas

Arcane Carolinas

210

QueerCore Podcast

The LGBTQ History Project

211

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters

212

Fallen Angel

Audacy Studios | Campside Media

213

On Our Watch

KQED

214

The Experiment

The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

215

Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History

Geno Samuel

216

Paranormal Record: A True Ghost Story Podcast

Rob Constantine

217

Dark Winter Nights

Rob Prince

218

Truth or Demons Podcast

Stevi

219

Sold a Story en español

APM Reports

220

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

221

Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed

Lynn Studio

222

Just Stories

More Than Just Stories

223

Talk Tracks (The Telepathy Tapes Interview Series)

TTT Media

224

The Pornhub Empire

CBC

225

UNAFRAID

Eddie Penney

226

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

227

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

228

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

229

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

230

Crackdown

Crackdown Productions

231

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

232

Cosmic Peach

Julia Hamilton

233

Am I The Asshole?

Daisy

234

The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment

235

Hood Stocks

hoodstockspodcast

236

Ripple

American Public Media

237

After The Hatch: Fly Fishing Stories from Big Sky Country & Beyond

Steve Hoovler

238

The InBetween Official Podcast

The_InBetween

239

UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

Preston Dennett

240

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

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

241

Escafandro

Rádio Escafandro

242

Mythology And Folklore For Sleep

The Sleepy Mythkeeper

243

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

244

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

245

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

246

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

247

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

248

1001 History's Best Storytellers- Author Interviews

Jon Hagadorn and Guests

249

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

250

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

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