Top Documentary Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked August 30, 2026.

1

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

2

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

3

Otherworld

Otherworld

4

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

5

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

6

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

7

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

8

Paper Trail

ProPublica

9

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

10

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

11

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

12

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

13

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

14

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

15

Sold a Story

APM Reports

16

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

17

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

18

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

19

Embedded

NPR

20

OnlyFantasy

Audible

21

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

22

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

23

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

24

The Rewriting Humanity

Jim Walsh

25

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

26

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

27

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

28

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

29

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

30

Question Everything

Brian Reed

31

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

32

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

33

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

34

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

35

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

36

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

37

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

38

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

39

Noble

Audiochuck

40

What It Was Like

Superreal

41

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

42

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

43

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

44

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

45

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

46

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

47

World of Secrets

BBC

48

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

49

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

50

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

51

Bailey Sarian

Bailey Sarian

52

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

53

What I survived

Jack Laurence

54

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

55

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

56

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

57

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

58

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

59

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

60

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

iHeartPodcasts

61

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

62

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

63

How I Survived

That's Life!

64

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

BBC Sounds

65

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

66

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

67

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

68

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

69

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

70

Debt Heads

Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

71

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

72

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

73

The Commune

Stuff Audio

74

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

75

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

76

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

77

The Brohio Podcast

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

78

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

79

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

80

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

81

The Consciousness Cassettes

Ky Dickens

82

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

83

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

84

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

85

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

86

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

87

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

Secrets & Spies

88

The Flood

The Australian

89

Army of Normal Folks

iHeartPodcasts

90

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

91

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

92

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

93

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

94

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

95

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

96

HABITUAL

Colorado Radio for Justice

97

The Vanguard Wall Podcast

The Vanguard Wall Podcast

98

The Redefector

Audiochuck

99

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

Will Soto

100

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

101

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

102

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

103

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

104

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

105

Taming Lyons

Autonomous

106

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

107

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

108

Left To Their Own Devices

Toronto Star

109

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

110

Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix)

CBC

111

Lore Lodge Podcast

Lodge

112

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

113

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

114

Concrete Mama: The Podcast

Unincarcerated Productions

115

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

116

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

117

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

118

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

119

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

Byte & Pieces

120

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

121

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

122

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

123

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

124

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

125

Investigation Chancla

Mama Chancla

126

MiedoScope Historias de Miedo en Directo

Miedoscope

127

Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies

Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann

128

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

129

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

130

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

131

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

132

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

133

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

134

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

135

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

136

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

137

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

138

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro | Futuro Studios

139

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

140

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

141

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

142

The Improvement Association

Serial Productions & The New York Times

143

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

144

Cosmic Peach

Julia Hamilton

145

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

146

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

147

Jay Shetty - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

148

Paranormal Record: A True Ghost Story Podcast

Rob Constantine

149

Chameleon: Gallery of Lies

Sony Podcasts

150

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

151

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

152

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

153

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

154

Strangeology

Strangeology Podcast

155

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

156

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

157

Getting Free

International Beit Din

158

REICH – Das Geschäft mit dem Zweifel

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

159

Death on the Lot

Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment

160

Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History

Geno Samuel

161

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

162

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

163

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

164

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

165

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

166

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167

Power Plays

Human Rights Foundation

168

Pipeline

Daily Mail

169

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

170

Phantoms & Monsters Radio

Lon Strickler

171

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

172

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

173

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

174

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

175

Catastrophic Failure

Times Union

176

Pop Mystery Pod

Tess Barker

177

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

178

Tampa Bay Developer

Garrett Greco

179

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

180

Extreme

BBC

181

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

182

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

183

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

184

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

185

Odessa

The New York Times

186

Reflector

Longview

187

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

188

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

189

Storytime

Storytime

190

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

191

Deliver Us From Ervil

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

192

Better Human Project

Cole DaSilva

193

Trapped in Treatment

iHeartPodcasts and Warner Bros

194

Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto

Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto

195

Call Bethel

The Telegraph

196

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

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

197

On Our Watch

KQED

198

In Trust

iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg

199

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

200

Causality

The Engineered Network

201

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

202

The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh

Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci

203

La Biblioteca de los Sueños: Documentales para Dormir

Olimpia Pérez

204

The InBetween Official Podcast

The_InBetween

205

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Dr. Ed Hasan

206

The Superhero Complex

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

207

The Turning: Room of Mirrors

iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch

208

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

209

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

210

Zombie Apocalypse Stories

Sezgin

211

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

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

212

Alabama Astronaut

Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs

213

Sky Signal

Jason Abadi

214

UNAFRAID

Eddie Penney

215

香港電台：香港老花鏡

RTHK.HK

216

ParaPeculiar

ND ParaHouse

217

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

218

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

219

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

220

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

221

Lake Effect: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

JHughes Productions

222

UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

Preston Dennett

223

Stories with Matt Cullen

Matt Cullen

224

Ghost Herd

KUOW News and Information

225

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

226

The Pornhub Empire

CBC

227

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

228

Heaven's Helpline

NZ Herald

229

The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop

The Washington Post

230

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

231

Weight For It

ohitsBigRon Studios

232

Hidden Cults

Nik Hunter

233

In God's Name: An Unseen Cult

Grace Elizabeth

234

The Legend of SwordQuest

iHeartPodcasts

235

Threshold

Auricle Productions

236

True Stories with Seth Andrews

Seth Andrews

237

Crime After Crime

John Lordan & Danelle Hallan

238

Ripple

American Public Media

239

Stealing Superman

iHeartPodcasts

240

American Coyote

Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures

241

Howl

Boise State Public Radio

242

On Assignment

Reuters

243

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

244

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

245

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

246

UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality

James Quirk

247

Life with Ghosts — LET'S CHAT!

Stephen Berkley

248

The Harvard Plan

The Boston Globe

249

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

250

Our Common Nature

WNYC

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