Documentary Podcasts

Dirty John

47 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40.9K ratings
All episodes are available for free, with remastered ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers.Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who se...

Embedded

144 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11.5K ratings
NPR's original documentary podcast unearths the stories behind the headlines. Police shootings. Towns ravaged by opioids. The roots of our modern immigration crisis. We explore what's been sealed o...

Swindled

282 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.8K ratings
Utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi sch...

Confronting

44 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratings
Season 2 - Confronting: Columbine The events of April 20th, 1999 shaped our nation and altered the American narrative. One of America’s deadliest school shootings took place in a small...

Tides of History

320 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it ...

The Paranormal Podcast

222 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
America's Top Paranormal Podcaster interviews the best known names in the paranormal about UFOs, Ghosts, Bigfoot, and everything paranormal! Guests have included Josh Gates, Chip Coffey, George Noo...

Unsolved Mysteries

96 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Welcome to the official Unsolved Mysteries podcast from the original creators of the iconic television series, presented by Audacy. Join our host Steve French each week as we present all new myster...

Best Case Worst Case

397 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
We take you behind police lines. Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente & former federal prosecutor Francey Hakes get unparalleled access to law enforcement officers, looking back at their most me...

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

12 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
After a sexual assault case in the District of Columbia, one woman’s public warning ricochets all the way to Birmingham, Ala., where another woman gives voice to a devastating allegation. This se...

British Scandal

196 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal. British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthro...

Firebug

18 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
For ten years, a serial arsonist terrorized Southern California, burning down businesses in broad daylight. Four people were murdered. Then, a manuscript for a novel led investigators to the last ...

In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson

11 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
"In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson" presents a surprising and original portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, told in the former first lady's own words -- from over 123 hours of her White House audio diari...

Pretend - a true crime podcast about con artists

383 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
PRETEND exposes the masterminds behind some of the most notorious scams and cons. From cult leaders to con artists and undercover FBI agents, this podcast pulls back the curtain on those who've pre...

Radio Diaries

204 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners ...

One Year

58 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moment...

Pretendians

29 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
What do some of the most prominent and successful Indigenous artists, leaders and professors have in common? They aren’t Indigenous.  There are hundreds of cases of Indigenous identity fraud that...

Fallen Angel

19 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 952 ratings
Fallen Angel is a documentary podcast about Victoria's Secret...and its many, many secrets. The series investigates the origin story of one of the world’s most iconic brands and its effect on Ameri...

Wild Ideas Worth Living

323 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
High-impact interviews for those who love adventure and the outdoors. Host and journalist Shelby Stanger interviews world-class explorers, athletes, authors, scientists, health experts and entrepre...

Crime After Crime

77 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 840 ratings
A monthly podcast where two true crime YouTubers, Danelle Hallan and John Lordan, challenge each other to tell the best story about a true crime related topic. Listeners voting online will determi...

What Makes a Killer

116 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 756 ratings
A look into the life and crimes of the world’s most infamous serial killers. Featuring interviews with family members, forensic experts, law enforcement, and witnesses. From John Wayne Gacy and Je...

Historical Blindness

201 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 741 ratings
Historical Blindness is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and misconceptions. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and ...

Our Body Politic

220 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 647 ratings
Created 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 toda...

Blindspot

45 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 574 ratings
HIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world. In this series, we reveal untold stories from the defining years of the epidemic, and we’ll consider: How could some of the pain have been avoi...

Unpleasant Dreams

56 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 510 ratings
Chilling stories told by Cassandra Harold. Season 3 brings a format change with classic frightening fiction as the focus. Prior topics include strange and anomalous phenomena, mind benders, head s...

War Stories Official Podcast

441 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 484 ratings
Where Police, Veterans and Firefighters get together and tell each other their War Stories.

No Place Like Home

17 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 483 ratings
Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? The familiar pair of red shoes that sparkle as Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road, a rare collector’s item worth millions. In the ...

American Vigilante

17 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 475 ratings
KC is the American Vigilante - A hugely complex, intelligent, contradictory man who could save your life but end it too. Who leads a group of violent men standing on the blurred line between right ...

Into the Mix

35 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 447 ratings
Ben & Jerry’s is back with another season of Into the Mix, a podcast about joy and justice. Hosted by Ashley C. Ford and produced with Vox Creative, this season will bring you stories of struggle a...

Threshold

235 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 407 ratings
Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning podcast about people and the planet. Each season, we do a deep dive into one pressing environmental story, exploring it through the intersections of science, po...

Bed of Lies

22 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 395 ratings
It was meant to be a miracle treatment, but it became a deadly poison. Cara McGoogan investigates the story they didn't want you to know - and one of the biggest medical disasters in history. The...