Top 100 Documentary Podcasts

The top documentary podcasts on Apple Podcasts right now — each with a free daily AI recap.

Sword and Scale

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

The Walkers: The real Salt Path | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

#10

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

#11

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

#12

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

#13

What I survived

Jack Laurence

#14

The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3

iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch

#15

Next Question with Katie Couric

iHeartPodcasts

#16

Sold a Story

APM Reports

#17

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

#18

What It Was Like

Superreal

#19

Getting Free

International Beit Din

#20

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

#21

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

#22

World of Secrets

BBC

#23

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

#24

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

#25

Campus Files

Audacy

#26

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

#27

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

#28

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

#29

The Birth Keepers | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

#30

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

#31

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

#32

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

#33

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

#34

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav

#35

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

#36

Untold: Toxic Legacy

Financial Times

#37

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

#39

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

#41

The CRUX: True Survival Stories

Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav

#42

Noble

Audiochuck

#43

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

#44

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

#45

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

#46

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

#47

Telephone Stories

Ninth Planet Audio

#48

Hyperfixed

Hyperfixed & Radiotopia

#49

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

#50

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

#51

The Commune

Stuff Audio

#52

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

#54

The Brohio Podcast

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

#55

Relatos Forenses Podcast

Relatos Forenses / troop audio

#56

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

#57

The Underworld Podcast

#58

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

#59

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

#61

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

#62

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

#63

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

#64

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

#65

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

#66

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

#67

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

#69

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

#70

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

#71

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

iHeartPodcasts

#72

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

#73

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

#74

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

#75

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

#76

Real Life Ghost Stories

#77

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

#79

heretics.

Andrew Gold

#79

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

#79

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

#80

Buckeye Bigfoot

Nance Warren

#81

Personally: Creation Myth

CBC

#81

In Trust

iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg

#82

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

Secrets & Spies

#82

Creatures of the Wind

Mae Nagusky

#82

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

#83

Our Common Nature

WNYC

#84

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

#85

An Arm and a Leg

#85

Debt Heads

Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

#86

Everyday Heroes

Podgo

#87

Chess Piece: The Elián González Story

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

#87

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

#87

Strange

#88

Crazy House Mysteries

Podgo

#88

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

#89

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

#90

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

#90

I'm Not a Monster

BBC Radio 5 Live

#91

In The Wild

Narrative.fm

#91

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

#91

In The Wild

Narrative.fm

#91

Fallen Angel

Audacy Studios | Campside Media

#91

Empire Bones

Podgo

#92

Cursed Business Bureau

Podgo

#92