Podcasts · Documentary · Apple chart November 9, 2026
Top 100 Documentary podcasts
The top 100 documentary podcasts on the Apple Podcasts US chart for November 9, 2026, with episode counts and host contacts in Media List.
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#1
Freakonomics RadioFreakonomics Radio + Stitcher
937episodes
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#2
The Binge: Free Shelley JensenSony Music Entertainment
155episodes
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#3
The Why Files: Operation PodcastThe Why Files: Operation Podcast
303episodes
#1Freakonomics Radio on the Documentary chart
91episodes, typical show here
3published in the 30 days before November 8, 2026
24shows here with a host contact you can unlock
Key facts
- Freakonomics Radio is #1 on the Apple Podcasts US Documentary chart for November 9, 2026.
- The top five positions shown here are Freakonomics Radio (#1), The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen (#2), The Why Files: Operation Podcast (#3), Sold a Story (#4), The Telepathy Tapes (#5).
- The typical show here has about 91 episodes (Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026).
- 24 of the 100 shows on this page have a host contact in Media List.
- Chart checked .
The chart
Top 100 documentary podcasts, by Apple chart position
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| # | Show | Episodes | Apple | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Top 25 Documentary podcasts | ||||
| 1 | Freakonomics Radio Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher |
937 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 2 | The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen Sony Music Entertainment |
155 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 3 | The Why Files: Operation Podcast The Why Files: Operation Podcast |
303 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 4 |  Sold a Story APM Reports |
23 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 5 | The Telepathy Tapes Ky Dickens |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 6 |  METRO with Sarah Koenig Serial Productions & The New York Times |
4 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 7 |  Otherworld Otherworld |
258 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 8 |  This Is Actually Happening Audible Original |
348 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 9 |  Danny Jones Podcast Danny Jones | Daylight Media |
432 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 10 |  Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries Olimpia Pérez |
140 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 11 |  Theories of the Third Kind Theories of the Third Kind |
300 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 12 |  Curse of: Miss America iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts |
18 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 13 | Reaching Out Futuro Media |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 14 |  The Documentary Podcast BBC World Service |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 15 |  Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World Jimmy Akin |
300 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 16 |  What It Was Like Superreal |
93 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 17 |  Hyperfixed Alex Goldman & Radiotopia |
54 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 18 |  Embedded NPR |
190 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 19 |  I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice? BBC Sounds |
31 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 20 |  The Hidden Third Mariana van Zeller |
48 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 21 | Spiral | Tortoise Investigates The Observer |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 22 |  Decoder Ring Slate Podcasts |
162 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 23 |  Adrift Apple TV / Blanchard House |
9 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 24 |  Deep Secrets Nothing To See Here, Inc. |
2 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 25 |  Radio Ambulante My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts |
369 | Listen | Similar shows |
Top 50, positions 26 to 50 | ||||
| 26 |  The Crux True Survival Stories The Crux True Survival Stories |
263 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 27 |  Dalton Fischer Podcast Dalton Fischer |
22 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 28 |  Ear Hustle Ear Hustle & Radiotopia |
188 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 29 |  Flightless Bird David Farrier |
211 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 30 |  World of Secrets BBC |
95 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 31 |  Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast iHeartPodcasts |
45 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 32 |  Latino USA My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts |
700 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 33 |  Focus: We Keep Us Safe KUOW News and Information |
17 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 34 |  Real Life Ghost Stories Real Life Ghost Stories |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 35 |  Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities Audacy |
93 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 36 |  Heretics | Andrew Gold Andrew Gold |
697 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 37 |  Question Everything KCRW |
83 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 38 |  Uncanny BBC Radio 4 |
100 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 39 |  ChannelB پادکست فارسی Ali Bandari |
105 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 40 |  The Vanishing of Janis Rose Sony Music Entertainment |
4 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 41 |  Johnathan Walton Media Johnathan Walton |
48 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 42 |  Our American Stories iHeartPodcasts |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 43 |  Paper Trail ProPublica |
13 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 44 |  No One Is Coming Ten Cats Media |
7 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 45 |  JFK The Enduring Secret Jeff Crudele |
398 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 46 |  Radio Diaries Radio Diaries & Radiotopia |
272 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 47 |  Alien UFO Podcast Simon Bown |
441 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 48 |  What I survived Jack Laurence |
64 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 49 |  The Paranormal Podcast Jim Harold |
14 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 50 | The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3) TTT Media |
6 | Listen | Similar shows |
Positions 51 to 100 | ||||
| 51 |  Wind of Change Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify |
15 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 52 |  The Know Rogan Experience Cross Pond Productions |
87 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 53 |  Scene on Radio Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University |
140 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 54 |  An Arm and a Leg An Arm and a Leg |
170 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 55 |  Unquiet Realities Winchester |
6 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 56 |  The Brohio Podcast Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy |
523 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 57 |  Noble Audiochuck |
12 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 58 | All My Relations Podcast Matika Wilbur |
77 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 59 |  The Underworld Podcast The Underworld Podcast |
279 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 60 |  Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs Secrets & Spies |
348 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 61 |  WTF is on my Mind?! Mark Vicente |
123 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 62 | Black Box: The Chatbots The Guardian |
51 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 63 |  Relatos Forenses Podcast pepe&chema |
265 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 64 |  Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks SpectreVision Radio |
155 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 65 | Personally: Agent Layla CBC |
68 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 66 | The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2) TTT Media |
14 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 67 |  搞钱女孩 搞钱女孩小辉 |
188 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 68 |  Sweet Bobby Tortoise Media |
8 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 69 | pepe&chema podcast pepe&chema |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 70 |  Be Amazed Be Amazed |
490 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 71 |  Better in Person with Stephen Dubner Freakonomics Radio |
11 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 72 |  Strangers on a Bench Tom Rosenthal |
100 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 73 |  Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained Haunted UK |
222 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 74 |  How I Survived That's Life! |
35 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 75 | OnlyFantasy Audible Original |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 76 |  The Secret World of Roald Dahl iHeartPodcasts |
14 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 77 |  Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord iHeartPodcasts |
26 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 78 |  The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories |
636 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 79 |  The Speaker KQED |
2 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 80 | Affaires sensibles France Inter |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 81 | Where the River Took Us Texas Monthly |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 82 | Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter Forbidden Knowledge Network |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 83 |  The Shrink Next Door Audible Original | Bloomberg |
3 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 84 |  Into The Fog with Peter Laws Peter Laws |
79 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 85 |  BioHacked: Family Secrets Sony Music Entertainment |
14 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 86 |  Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز Marzie |
91 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 87 |  The Missing Cryptoqueen BBC Sounds |
18 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 88 |  Army of Normal Folks iHeartPodcasts |
482 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 89 |  Inheritance BBC World Service |
11 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 90 | The Birth Keepers The Guardian |
6 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 91 |  The Haunted Objects Podcast SpectreVision Radio |
33 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 92 |  The Guild of Ghostly Grounds The Guild of Ghostly Grounds |
8 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 93 |  Stolen Lives True Crime Stolen Lives True Crime |
292 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 94 |  MimmPodcast | پادکست میم مهدی عباسی |
55 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 95 |  Leaving Eden Podcast Leaving Eden LLC |
340 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 96 |  Curse of: America's Next Top Model iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts |
17 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 97 |  History's Great Mysteries Nick |
20 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 98 |  Inconceivable Truth Audiochuck |
12 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 99 |  Debt Heads Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster |
0 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 100 |  The Slow Newscast The Observer |
438 | Listen | Similar shows |
How this list is made
Chart positions from Apple Podcasts (US), November 9, 2026. Positions follow Apple's chart, and a show removed on request leaves a gap. We check the charts every week. Episode counts come from Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026; Podcast Index caps counts at 1,000, so 1,000+ means at least that many. Host contacts unlock in Media List where we hold one for the show.
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What are the top documentary podcasts right now?
On the Apple Podcasts US Documentary chart for November 9, 2026, the top five positions shown here are Freakonomics Radio (#1), The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen (#2), The Why Files: Operation Podcast (#3), Sold a Story (#4), The Telepathy Tapes (#5).
How is this list ranked?
By chart position on the Apple Podcasts US Documentary chart on November 9, 2026. Positions follow Apple's chart, and a show removed on request leaves a gap. Media List adds episode counts and host contacts.
How often is this list updated?
We check the Apple Podcasts charts every week. The date above is the date of the chart shown on this page.
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24 of the shows on this list have a host contact in Media List. Plans start at $99 a month.
How many episodes do these podcasts have?
The typical show on this list has about 91 episodes, based on Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026.
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