Documentary Podcasts

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes artwork

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

240 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20.2K ratings
On Buried Bones, journalist Kate Winkler Dawson and retired investigator Paul Holes dissect some of history’s most compelling true crime cases from centuries ago. Together, they explore these very ...
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Ear Hustle

126 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 19.7K ratings
Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Host...
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American Scandal

364 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17K ratings
Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage. Scandals have shaped America since its founding. From business and politics to spo...
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Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked

178 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14.7K ratings
Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment Studios, i...
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True Crime All The Time

584 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratings
Hosts Mike Ferguson and Mike Gibson guide you through the most interesting true crime stories. This is a true crime podcast that spares none of the details and delves into what makes these ...
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Embedded

142 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...
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Scene on Radio

133 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10.4K ratings
Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2)...
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Swindled

276 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month 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...
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Bad Batch

70 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratings
Patients in search of a miracle cure end up in critical condition. The race is on to find out what went wrong before more people get hurt. The trail leads back to a medical company with sli...
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Confronting

43 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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...
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Accused

54 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 7.2K ratings
Binge all of Season 4 early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+. Season 4: When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. T...
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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

1,536 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7K ratings
The Truth & Justice Podcast is listener driven show, devoted to the pursuit of truth and justice. Host, Bob Ruff, investigates potential wrongful conviction and cold cases using a unique crowdsourc...
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Jim Harold's Campfire

207 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.5K ratings
Creepy TRUE stories of paranormal phenomena of all types. Ghost stories, UFO, cryptids and more! This feed reflects the last 90 days of content, Jim Harold's Campfire has been in production since...
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Newt's World

737 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratings
Join former House Speaker, professor, historian, and futurist Newt Gingrich as he shares his lifetime of knowledge and access to the world’s most interesting minds in a new series that covers all a...
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Tides of History

305 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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 ...
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Next Question with Katie Couric

401 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 4.2K ratings
Katie Couric is back on the mic with a new season of intimate, urgent and unexpected conversations – this time with a new twist. Along with her signature in-depth one-on-one interviews, she’ll be ...
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The Paranormal Podcast

212 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...
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Unsolved Mysteries

96 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Welcome to the official Unsolved Mysteries podcast from the original creators of the iconic television series, presented by Cadence13. Join our host Steve French each week as we present all new mys...
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Legends of the Old West

331 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratings
Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, and Butch and Sundance. Lakota, Comanche and Apache. Wars, gunfights and robberies. This show covers the toughest lawmen, the wildest outlaws, and the deadliest towns — all...
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Sports Wars

175 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3K ratings
You can binge all episodes of Sports Wars exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Sports rivalries can fuel fans and athletes to fight a...
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Fox Hunter

26 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
The murder of 18-year-old Rhonda Sue Coleman in 1990 has been a thorn in the side of the small community of Hazlehurst, GA for over 30 years. No arrests, no answers, and no justice. The family, fri...
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Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

12 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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...
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Inside The Exorcist

90 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
In 1973 Hell came home and invaded the body of a young girl. This is the story of a movie and its makers. It's a tale of dark and light, of loss and love. A story of faith and fury, of caus...
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British Scandal

182 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...
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Decoder Ring

93 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it mea...
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Inside Jaws

76 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
From the creators of Inside Psycho and Inside the Exorcist comes a new story about a classic movie and its inspirations. A tale of a modest thriller that became an ordeal and then a disaste...
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SOGCast: Untold Stories of MAC V SOG

47 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
John Stryker Meyer, call sign--Tilt, hosts untold stories of the operations of MAC-V SOG. Vietnam. The Secret War.
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In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson

11 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...
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Radio Diaries

201 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days 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 ...
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One Year

57 episodes - Latest episode: 3 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...