New Documentary Podcasts
Care of the State by Catalysts for Social Action
9 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years agoCare of the State - a podcast by Catalysts for Social Action is a series to help understand the plight of vulnerable children in India. The show breaks down complex issues to help you understand th...
Camp Time is Real Time
113 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHello FCDC! That's right, we've done it; a camp podcast! Join Sara LaBrecque (camper/counselor 1986 - 2004) as we go through the past 50 years and look forward to the next 50 with your favorite cou...
Before I Forget
199 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsJoin us on 'Before I Forget,' the podcast where combat veterans share untold stories, unforgettable moments, and the raw realities of life on the front lines. Walk in their boots, hear their voices...
Legendary People Podcast
24 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLegendary People Podcast Legendary People, Legendary Stories
Lakeshore Lover: a Rap Retrospective
7 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLearn about the Chicago rapper, Lakeshore Lover, and how he got his start. Follow his career through the 1990s, meet some of the people he met along the way, and find out what happened to this Plat...
Third Squad
27 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 424 ratingsIn 2011, veteran and journalist Elliott Woods embedded with the twelve Marines of Third Squad in one of the most violent parts of Afghanistan at the height of the war against the Taliban. Only elev...
Tales From The Crow
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin me on this limited part series as I dive into my personal paranormal stories.
Weird Horizon
62 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDiscussions on the spooky and the esoteric, the counter-cultural and the just plain weird.
Mistaken for Missing
12 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn 2016 Allison Whiddon went missing from Panama City Beach, Fl. She has never been seen again. One year later I was accidentally mistaken for her online. My name is Alison Whiddon. This is the sto...
Violent Femme
7 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 108 ratingsViolent Femme is a narrative podcast about women in history who were brave, bold, and ingenious, yet are mostly remembered for their brutality or villainy, if at all. Each episode will resurrect on...
Before the Peace
31 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days agoPersonal, powerful conversations that deserve to be listened to. Before the Peace will take you on a journey with an Indigenous, Métis, or Inuit lens on the history of the Peace Region. We touch o...
Eclipsed
49 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsLakes disappear, sailors cry, and pop stars go into battle on this season of ECLIPSED. Hosted by writer Bijan Stephen (The Verge, The Believer), each episode features a story hidden in the shadow o...
Things I‘ve Learned Along The Way
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsExploring un-curated stories of adulthood and self-healing. Lets grow, glow and learn together, all-the-while teaching others to do the same.
Olive Shoot
15 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOlive Shoot is a series by Elsa Barron that seeks to answer the difficult question: how do we find hope in the midst of the climate crisis? It does so through an examination of different lenses and...
According to Mum
10 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years agoWant to know what Mum thinks? Listen in to hear Liam and Sharon chat about anything and everything. There's no topic too big or too small and we tackle them all.
I Am In Podcast
68 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe I Am In Podcast presents an impressive list of speakers from the Friday Forums at the Boise State Institute of Religion. Each speaker presents stories and experiences from their life that hav...
Pine Curtain Confidential
7 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis narrative audio drama blends fact and fiction to share mysteries, histories, stories and folklore from the creator of East Texas documentary and research initiative, the Pine Curtain Project.
Our Stories, Our World: A community-driven podcast series
8 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs part of an innovative collaboration between two nonprofits focused on narrative change and community building, Chicago youth produce “Our Stories, Our World,” a series of community-centered narr...
One Square Mile in North East Fife
6 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years agoOn a remarkable one mile stretch of the east coast of Scotland, for over 600 years, some of the most extraordinary world-changing ideas, debates and collaborations across the arts and science have ...
Bodies Are Telling
39 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLatest series: Bodies Are Telling with Jimanekia Eborn Bodies are Telling is a two part exploration of the often complex relationship between the body and the self, told by Jimanekia Eborn throu...
Bodies Are Telling
38 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months agoLatest series: Bodies Are Telling with Jimanekia Eborn Bodies are Telling is a two part exploration of the often complex relationship between the body and the self, told by Jimanekia Eborn throu...
2705 GLEA$ONWAY
14 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating2705 Glea$onWay takes a journey that will leave listeners questioning their everyday lives. This podcast dives into various issues and explains how they all seem to be governed by, “The Glea$onWay”
RedZone Podcast
7 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years agoAn unprecedented look into the opioid crisis in Canada.
One two five four
12 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year agoThe absence of nothing is the presence of something.
One Cup of Perfect Tea
3 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years agoSnippets of interesting angles on UK culture and language, featuring interviews with people who have a personal connection to the subject. Ideal for English teachers in search of materials for thei...
Im My Brothers Keeper Podcast
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years agoDot, Niddy, and Dessi
Em Radio
4 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years agoWe go over different topics but mostly mystery, documentary, and crime.
Stones & Bones
26 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 108 ratingsA thousand years ago Emma of Normandy was on trial for adultery, treason and murder. The Stones & Bones podcast tells the tale of the first woman styled Queen of England who stood at the center of ...
Just Cause
6 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years agoBringing you the stories and experiences of those working within and around the justice system, and those with lived experience.
Race Against Climate Change
11 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCanada’s National Observer is already the country’s most trusted voice in climate journalism. Now, it has a new podcast: Race Against Climate Change. With just nine years until 2030, we need to mov...
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