Documentary Podcasts
Radio Diaries
202 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsFirst-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
57 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsThe 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...
Thunder Bay
24 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsThe highest homicide rate in the country. A mayor and his wife charged with extortion. A police chief put on trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous teenagers. Why does i...
Somewhere in the Skies
465 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsSomewhere in the Skies is a weekly podcast covering UFOs and the unexplained. New episodes every Monday. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. Se...
Inside Psycho
90 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsA deep dive into the mysterious and peculiar happenings that occurred during the filming of the legendary film Psycho. Mark Ramsey Media and Wondery create a magical mix of fact and fiction...
Euphomet
176 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 979 ratingsA critically acclaimed documentary series about the unknown and our relationship to it, featuring real people sharing astonishing paranormal experiences
Up Against The Mob
17 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 967 ratingsElie Honig spent fourteen years as a federal and state prosecutor in New York and New Jersey. In Up Against the Mob, he peels back the curtain on the real-life, inside stories of the modern-day maf...
Fallen Angel
18 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 966 ratingsFallen 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
314 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 904 ratingsHigh-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: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 839 ratingsA 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...
Larger Than Life
23 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 794 ratingsIn 1960s Los Angeles, after the catastrophic Watts riots, an outsized character emerged — one who found an unexpected way to unite people across race and class. Odds are you’ve never heard of him. ...
What Makes a Killer
116 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 753 ratingsA 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
194 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 741 ratingsHistorical 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 ...
Killin Missin Hidden
302 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 709 ratingsTHE podcast about bad things! Hosted by a former criminal defense trial attorney, Killin Missin Hidden tells not only the story of a different crime/missing persons case each week, but also breaks...
Our Body Politic
220 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 647 ratingsCreated 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...
Ephemeral
63 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 639 ratingsThe best source on our cultural identity is not the official, historical record — ask any anthropologist, it’s the town dump. Ephemera — those things that were just barely saved, and in some cases ...
Down The Rabbit Holes
367 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★ - 581 ratingsExploring the Theories of Missing Persons Cases.
Blindspot
45 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 574 ratingsHIV 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
55 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 510 ratingsChilling 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...
History of the 90s
140 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 506 ratingsOn History of the 90’s we’ll travel back in time through the stories that defined a decade. The last 10 years of the 20th century was a time like no other, from Columbine to Ruth Bader Ginsburg to ...
No Place Like Home
17 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 483 ratingsDo 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: 29 days ago - ★★★★ - 468 ratingsKC 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 ...
Hi-Phi Nation
65 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 462 ratingsHi-Phi Nation is philosophy in story-form, integrating narrative journalism with big ideas. We look at stories from everyday life, law, science, popular culture, and strange corners of human experi...
Into the Mix
35 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 447 ratingsBen & 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...
Good Nurse Bad Nurse
296 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 408 ratingsA light-hearted, fun podcast hosted by a registered nurse and special guests who take turns telling you two medical-related stories...one dark and mysterious ... one uplifting and inspirational. Th...
Threshold
235 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 404 ratingsThreshold 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: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 395 ratingsIt 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...
Hello, Nature
26 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 384 ratingsHello, Nature is back! In season 1, Misha Euceph traveled across the country to share the unknown stories of America’s National Parks. In season 2, Misha is back on the road in her Subaru Outback W...
Jim Harold's Crime Scene
30 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 369 ratingsJim Harold interviews authors and experts on true crime. Past guests have included Pulitzer Prize winners, best selling authors and popular true crime podcasters.
Do You Know Mordechai?
11 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 367 ratingsKathleen Goldhar was so happy her friend Arya had finally found someone after a bad divorce. Mordechai Horowitz seemed perfect. Smart. Rich. Creative. But like so many things that seem to b...
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