Documentary podcasts

51Finally! A ShowiHeartCome hang out in a different woman’s life on each episode.

52FirebugSony Music and truth.mediaFor ten years, a serial arsonist terrorized Southern California, burning down businesses in broad daylight.

53Flightless BirdDavid FarrierFlightless Bird follows journalist David Farrier as he learns about what makes America special from his unique perspective as a Kiwi accidentally marooned in the Land of the Free.

54Founding Son: John Quincy's AmericaiHeartBob Crawford of The Avett Brothers explores the post-presidential legacy of America’s sixth president: John Quincy Adams.

55Generation BarneyConnecticut PublicMeet “Generation Barney,” a podcast about the media we loved as kids and how it shapes us.

56Getting FreeInternational Beit DinImagine finally escaping a marriage after years of abuse.

57Ghost HerdKUOW and Northwest Public BroadcastingA true story of family, fraud, land and power in the American West.

58Go-Boy!iHeartPodcastIn the mid-century, Canada was home to some of the most inhumane prisons in the world.

59Guru: Don't Cross KatWondery Season 2: Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life.

60Haunted DetectiveTrue CrimeREBRAND IN PROCESS....A podcast about the human experience and the stories we've heard too many times.

61Hello, John DoeiHeartAt age 45, Steve Patterson made a shocking online discovery: his own missing person’s page.

62High StrangeCadence13, Tenderfoot TVFrom the creators of Up and Vanished and Radio Rental, host Payne Lindsey attempts to break the stigma surrounding the topic of UFOs.

63Hooked on FreddieWondery Did one man’s friendship with a dolphin go way – way – too far?

64Hookergate: Criminals and Libertines in the SouthiHeartTruck-stop brothels run by a web of ex-cons… a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power… protection exchanged for cash and flesh… a brash local reporter exposing it all… This is HOOKERGATE: Criminals and Libertines in the South.

65HystericalWondery, Pineapple Street Studios Named 2025 Ambies© Podcast of the Year, Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York.

66I AM STORYAFSCMEIn 1968, sanitation workers in Memphis took a stand against degrading and deadly working conditions.

67In the ShadowsCasefile Presents, WonderyIn The Shadows delves into a riveting unsolved mystery from 1991.

68In The TrenchesTim BallardIn The Trenches tells the stories of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.): an organization dedicated to rescuing victims of human trafficking and exploitation worldwide.

69In TrustiHeart, BloombergA hundred and fifty years ago, the Osage Nation bought a stretch of prairie the size of Delaware, in what's now Oklahoma.

70Inconceivable TruthWavlandInvestigative reporter Matt Katz has been searching for his biological father since he was a little kid.

71InheritingNPRInheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.

72Inside McKamey ManorAlways True CrimeIn Nashville, Tennessee sits an unremarkable house, it’s red brick, set back from the road, with a green lawn.

73Into AmericaMSNBC and Trymaine LeeInto America is a show about being Black in America.

74It Was SaidCadence13, History ChannelIt Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, takes a look back on some of the most powerful and timeless speeches in history.

75JournalistaiHeartThe untold tale of the woman who broke one of the biggest scandals in U.S.

76Keys To The KingdomAmanda Lund and Matt GourleyKeys to the Kingdom is an unprecedented, eight-part docuseries exploring the peculiar backstage life of theme park characters, performers, and fans.

77Killer TapeAudio Up True CrimeAnthony Scaramucci and Sam Bankman-Fried were the unlikeliest of business partners.

78Killing Dad: The Crystal Howell StoryAudio Up Inc.Welcome to Killing Dad Presents: The Miscreants, season two of our series investigating family murders.

79Law & Order: Criminal Justice SystemUni TV, Wolf Entertainment and iHeartPodcastsLaw & Order: Criminal Justice System tells the real stories behind the landmark cases that have shaped how the most dangerous and influential criminals in America are prosecuted.

80Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma StoriesJohn "Jay" Wiley, BleavTrue Crime with a twist.

81Leave the Gun, Take the CannoliiHeartPodcastsWhat’s left to say about “The Godfather"?

82Lights On with Carl LentzB-Side Lights On with Carl Lentz is exactly what this show is.

83Lost Notes: GroupiesKCRW This season on Lost Notes: Groupies.

84Lost PatientsNPRLost Patients takes you into new spaces most people have likely never experienced before — the inside of someone's psychosis, mental health court rooms, and the past and present streets of Seattle, says Esmy.Jimenez, collaborating journalist of Lost Patients, Apple Podcasts' Spotlight show for August 2024.

85Maculate ConceptionAudible

86MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl ReiglerHarry Robinson & Carl ReiglerTHE MOST INSANE GUESTS WITH THE MADDEST STORIES.

87Making Peace VisibleWar Stories Peace StoriesIn the news media, war gets more headlines than peace, conflict more airtime than reconciliation.

88Media Pressure Voices for Justice MediaIt’s been twenty years since 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray disappeared without a trace on February 9, 2004.

89Missing NiamhCasefile PresentsWhen 18-year-old Niamh Maye went missing in 2002, her family did everything they could to help the police find her.

90MorbidologyEmily G. ThompsonMorbidology is an award-winning weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by true crime author, Emily G.

91More PerfectWNYC StudiosWe’re taught the Supreme Court was designed to be above the fray of politics.

92Next Question with Katie CouriciHeartTired of political headlines that feel like déjà vu?

93NobleWavlandIn the winter of 2002, police discovered more than 300 bodies on one property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia.

94ODB: A Son UniqueUSG This is the story of Old Dirty Bastard, aka Ason Unique, the magnetic secret weapon of the WuTang Clan and hip hop hall of famer.

95On Our WatchKQEDWhen correctional officer Valentino Rodriguez first stepped behind prison walls, he wasn't just starting a job, he was joining a family.

96Once Removed: An American Family ReunionAudible

97OperatorWondery During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex.

98Our Body PoliticDiaspora FarmsCreated and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they're impacting those very issues.

99OUTLAWS: The Good ThiefiHeartVassilis Paleokostas, aka “Greece’s Robin Hood,” has been on the lam for 14 years.

100Queen Havoc and Her Murder CultiHeartCecilia Steyn has been called “the Charles Manson of South Africa.” The criminal mastermind helmed a quasi-Christian cult and convinced her followers to kill 11 innocent people, without spilling a drop of blood herself.