Top Documentary Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked November 2, 2026.

1

Sold a Story

APM Reports

2

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

3

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

4

Behind The Story Show

Jelani Gonzalez

5

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

6

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

7

Otherworld

Otherworld

8

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

9

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

10

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

11

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

12

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

13

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

14

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

15

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

16

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

17

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

18

Paper Trail

ProPublica

19

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

BBC Sounds

20

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

21

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

22

What It Was Like

Superreal

23

Embedded

NPR

24

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

25

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

26

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

27

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

28

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

29

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

30

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

31

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

32

Question Everything

KCRW

33

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

34

World of Secrets

BBC

35

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

36

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

37

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

38

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

39

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

40

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

41

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

42

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

43

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

44

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

45

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

46

The Speaker

KQED

47

Inheritance

BBC World Service

48

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

49

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

50

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

51

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

52

Noble

Audiochuck

53

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

54

Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine

DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios

55

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

56

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

57

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

iHeartPodcasts

58

Curse of: America's Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

59

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

60

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

61

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

62

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

63

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

64

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

65

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

66

The Powers of Darkness Podcast

Or Whatever Movies

67

The Shrink Next Door

Audible Original | Bloomberg

68

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

69

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

70

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

71

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

72

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur

73

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

74

Dispatches from the Divide

BYUradio

75

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

76

OnlyFantasy

Audible Original

77

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

78

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

79

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

80

The Guild of Ghostly Grounds

The Guild of Ghostly Grounds

81

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

82

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

83

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

84

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

85

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

86

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

87

SNAPPED: The Podcast

Lucy Taylor

88

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

89

Hysterical

Audible Original | Pineapple Street Studios

90

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

91

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

Secrets & Spies

92

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

93

What I survived

Jack Laurence

94

Lore Lodge Podcast

Lodge

95

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

96

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

97

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

98

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

99

The Commune

Stuff Audio

100

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

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

101

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

102

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

103

Broken Badge

Broken Badge

104

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

105

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

106

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

107

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

108

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

109

The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

110

The Brohio Podcast

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

111

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

112

Spicy Alien After Dark

Alien

113

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

114

Death on the Lot

Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment

115

Taming Lyons

Autonomous

116

How I Survived

That's Life!

117

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

118

Army of Normal Folks

iHeartPodcasts

119

A Whole Other Country

Marfa Public Radio

120

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

121

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

122

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

123

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

124

Dreadful, Inc. Presents: Unmarked Frequencies

Dreadful, Inc.

125

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

126

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

127

The Cryptid Podcast

The Cryptid Podcast - Daniel "Dano" Hamilton

128

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

129

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

130

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

131

Not Special: A Liberty Speaks Show

Liberty Speaks | Herb Thompson & Corrie Thompson

132

Famously

The Upshot

133

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

134

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

135

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative

136

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

137

The Youth Development Center

NHPR

138

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

The Carter Center

139

FBI Files

The FBI Files

140

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

141

Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

142

SAS: The Shadow War

The Independent / Aurra Studios

143

The Simply Audacious Podcast

Threat Loca

144

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

145

Debt Heads

Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

146

Strangeology

Strangeology Podcast

147

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

148

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

149

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

150

Harley Conversations

Guy Kiddey

151

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

152

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

Byte & Pieces

153

Threshold

Auricle Productions

154

On Solid Ground

Atlantic Re:think and Walmart

155

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

156

Truth or Demons Podcast

Stevi

157

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

158

Reflector

Longview

159

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Original

160

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

161

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

162

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

163

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

Steve Hoovler

164

Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast

Unincarcerated Productions

165

MiedoScope Historias de Miedo en Directo

Miedoscope

166

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

167

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

168

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

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

169

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

170

Chameleon: Gallery of Lies

Sony Podcasts

171

Ripple

American Public Media

172

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

173

On Adoption

Haley Radke Media Inc.

174

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

175

Weight For It

ohitsBigRon Studios

176

Bird Camp Radio Podcast

Kellen Matthew Golightly

177

On Assignment

Reuters

178

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

179

The Improvement Association

Serial Productions & The New York Times

180

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

181

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

182

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

183

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

184

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

185

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

186

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

187

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

188

Arcane Carolinas

Arcane Carolinas

189

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

190

Odessa

The New York Times

191

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

192

A Peace of My Mind

John Noltner

193

The InBetween Official Podcast

The_InBetween

194

Paranormal Record: A True Ghost Story Podcast

Rob Constantine

195

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

196

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

197

UNAFRAID

Eddie Penney

198

Left To Their Own Devices

Toronto Star

199

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

200

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

201

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

202

QueerCore Podcast

The LGBTQ History Project

203

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

Will Soto

204

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

205

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

206

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

207

The Experiment

The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

208

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

209

The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment

210

The Redefector

Audiochuck

211

Trojan Wars

Oregon Public Broadcasting

212

Extreme

BBC

213

On Our Watch

KQED

214

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

215

Just Stories

More Than Just Stories

216

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

217

Hooked on Freddie

Audible Original

218

Sold a Story en español

APM Reports

219

The Lodge

RNZ

220

Crackdown

Crackdown Productions

221

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro | Futuro Studios

222

有啥说啥｜用历史解码当下

王悠悠18号

223

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

224

A Diplomat Of The Outrageous Talk Show And Podcast

Darlinda Just Darlinda

225

Pipeline

Daily Mail

226

Conspiracy Theories Project

Forbidden Knowledge Network

227

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

228

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

229

Sounds Wild

Mike Stark, Vanessa Barchfield

230

Al Jazeera Documentary

Al Jazeera Network

231

In God's Name: An Unseen Cult

Grace Elizabeth

232

Stealing Superman

iHeartPodcasts

233

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

234

老高和小茉最新更新

老高与小茉高速更新

235

The United States of Paranormal

theunitedstatesofparanormal

236

Great Disasters

Kari Fay

237

Surviving Bob Jones University: A Christian Cult

Andrew Pledger

238

Investigation Chancla

Mama Chancla

239

Call Bethel

The Telegraph

240

Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History

Geno Samuel

241

Las Raras

Las Raras

242

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Dr. Ed Hasan

243

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

244

Talk Tracks (The Telepathy Tapes Interview Series)

TTT Media

245

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

246

Под куполом

Ivan Makridin

247

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

248

Nick Crowley

Nick Crowley

249

Storytime

Storytime

250

Outlawed

Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz

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