Documentary podcasts

201White LiesNPR, Embedded+On the morning of August 21, 1991, a group of Cuban detainees took over a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama, and demanded their freedom.

202Wild BoysCampside Media / Sony Music EntertainmentIn 2003, two half-starved brothers emerged from the wilderness, telling an incredible story of survival.

203You Didn't See NothinUSG AUDIO PODCASTS The Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning “You Didn't See Nothin” follows Yohance Lacour as he revisits the story that introduced him to the world of investigative journalism.

20413 Minutes Presents: Artemis IIKevin Fong and Maggie Aderin-PocockNEW from the BBC’s space podcast: A revolutionary telescope and the tiny flaw that almost destroyed the dream.

205A Bit of a Stretch - The PodcastThe TimesChris Atkins is a documentary maker who went to prison for tax fraud in 2016.

206A Race Around the World: Based on the True Adventures of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth BislandAdrien BehnOn November 14th, 1889, two female writers entered a race to go around the world in under 80 days.

207A Whole Other CountryMarfa Public Radio A Whole Other Country is a new podcast from the award-winning Marfa Public Radio Studios.Back in the ‘90s, in an off-the-grid neighborhood in the mountains of Far West Texas, a wannabe vintner started his own Wild West nation.

208AdriftApple TV / Blanchard House It’s the early 1970s, and a young British family is attempting to sail around the world when catastrophe strikes.The Robertsons have sold everything they own to embark on this trip.

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210Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the InternetArtifacts is a storytelling podcast about the technology, media, and digital culture we've left behind, and the feelings that remain.

211Atonement: The John Paulk StoryJohn was an ex-gay, ex-drag queen and an evangelical Christian.

212Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the UnderbellyH11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcastsAway Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.

213BABYHow do you know you're lost, if you don’t even know you're missing?

214Better in Person with Stephen DubnerEveryone has a public story.

215BLACK HANDS - A family mass murderStuffThis is the story of a mass-murder that divided a nation - a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down.

216Bloodied WaterIn 2009, I was shot 5 times with a 45 caliber gun and left for dead inside my home.

217BoomtownImperative Entertainment and Texas MonthlyIn a rugged corner of West Texas, billionaire wildcatters and roughnecks are fueling an oil boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, and our geopolitics.

218Broken VeilCheese & PickleBRITISH PODCAST AWARD WINNERTOP TEN AUDIO OF THE YEAR -- OBSERVERWriters Will Maclean (The Apparition Phase) and Joel Morris (Charlie Brooker's Wipe) investigate weird stories and explore the places where they might have happened.Headphones on.

219Can I tell you a secret?It starts the same way...

220Can I Walk With You?ThorayaSeason one kicks off in New York City—America's most walkable city—capturing honest, spontaneous conversations with the people who pass us by.

221Cocaine AirJohnathan WaltonThought provoking narratives.

222Cocaine Inc.The Times & True Crime AustraliaInside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses measured out in murders.

223Cold FrontDR LYD Dokumentar & KrimiOn a November day in 2022, Danish journalist Niels finds himself in a small rubber boat out at sea between Denmark and Sweden.

224Con JuanWhat’s the Story? Sounds Juan Carlos Guzman Betancur is a con-man like no other.

225Concrete Mama: The PodcastUnincarcerated ProductionsConcrete Mama is not just a podcast - it’s a raw and powerful journey recorded in the heart of the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.

226Confessions of an Elite Athlete with Midge PurceWhat does it really take to be elite?

227Danny Jones PodcastDanny JonesDanny’s quest to get smarter.

228Dead RiverLiz BonninDead River is the story of Brazil's worst environmental disaster — the Mariana dam collapse — that claimed the lives of 19 people.

229Deepest Dive: The Search for MH370Audible

230Delayland – Germany and the Missing MagicDWDelayland is a podcast about the difference between the international image of Germany and the reality.

231Devil in the WildernessSaul WordsworthA son uncovers disturbing secrets in the diaries his journalist father left behind.

232Dolly Parton's AmericaJad Abumrad and Shima OliaeeIn this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why?

233Dynamite DougProject BrazenFor 50 years, Douglas Latchford was the world’s premier expert on Cambodian art, supplying priceless statues to Western museums and rich collectors.

234EmbeddedNPRNPR's home for audio documentaries brings untold stories to light through deeply reported narrative series.

235Everything I Know About MeDaily Mail and Osk PetursdottirIncredible lives...

236ExpansePiia Wirsu and Sinead ManganSeason 6 Expanse: The Nannup Four with Dominique Bayens In 2007 four people disappeared from a blue farmhouse on the outskirts of the Western Australian town of Nannup, leaving behind the scatterings of a life, a note pinned to the door and a question: was the disappearance a choice… or murder?

237ExtrasensoryApple TV+, Blanchard House Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) hosts a mind-bending real-life story of reincarnation and a spooky tale of family secrets.

238Falling TreeDocumentaries that invite a closer listen, from the archives of Falling Tree.

239Fighting CrimeFighting Crime dives into the world of crime to uncover the evidence of what actually works to improve public safety.  Join journalist Cristina Quinn as she travels across the country - from prisons to universities, police chiefs to inmates - questioning everything we think we know about how to make America safer. 

240FloodlinesThe AtlanticSome call it Hurricane Katrina.

241Founding Fathers: An American Dream250 years ago, the United States of America was born.

242FraudaciousWhen London boutique owner Bridget Hutchcroft befriends a glamorous client at her Knightsbridge dress agency, she believes she has met a Russian socialite with vast wealth and powerful connections.

243Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in EuropeBrazenInnocent people are getting murdered.

244Geoffrey Boycott: An Extraordinary InningsSir Geoffrey Boycott is one of England's greatest ever cricketers.

245Good Bad BillionaireBBC SoundsHow did the richest people on the planet make their billions?

246Heaven's HelplineNZ HeraldHow far has the Mormon church gone to cover up abuse?  When journalist Murray Jones started looking into the church's finances in New Zealand, an intriguing Facebook post alerted him to a much bigger - and much darker - scandal.

247Heretics | Andrew GoldAndrew GoldJournalist Andrew Gold talks to everyone from cult defectors and politicians to mainstream celebrities - people who’ve challenged the expected script and lived with the consequences.

248Holy TroublemakersThe Catholic Church wasn’t built by the cautious.

249How To Destroy EverythingAileron Podcast StudiosThis is the true story of Richard Jacobs – a narcissist who destroyed a childhood, a marriage, a family, and a community.

250Howl In 1995 wolves had been eradicated from the Western U.S.