Documentary Podcasts

My Dark Path

80 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
My Dark Path explores the fringes of history, science, and the paranormal. In every episode, creator and host MF Thomas illuminates a topic taken from the dark corners of our world. Combining his...

70 Million

66 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted...

Better Place Project with Steve Norris

212 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 125 ratings
It started out with a simple question: How can we help make our world a better place? We’re holding this space for conversations about all the things, big and small, that we can do to create impact...

Where the Internet Lives

28 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
An award-winning podcast from Google about the unseen world of data centers.

ACCESS: A Podcast About Abortion

35 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
Abortion is popular, and common. So why are people afraid to talk about it? How much more might you understand about abortion access in the U.S. if talking about it wasn’t taboo? On ACCESS, our go...

NFW

190 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 89 ratings
No Fucking Way! A weekly release of true, disturbing & shocking stories hosted by Deanna and Candice. Binge and cringe with us all things f*cked up.

Indigenous Vision

149 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 88 ratings
Two aunties sharing and examining the world through the lense of an Anishinaabe and Blackfoot experience. Indigenous Vision (IV) is led by an all-Indigenous team who work to "revitalize Indigenous...

Arcane Carolinas

108 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 87 ratings
From mountaintops to sand dunes, the Carolinas' backroads and byroads hold legends and lore behind every hill and around every curve. From cryptids to cursed earth to people whose passions will sur...

Points South

32 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 82 ratings
An Oxford American podcast. Southern Stories. Southern Songs.

Soonish

54 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
We can have the future we want—but we have to work for it. Soonish brings you stories and conversations showing how the choices we make together forge the technological world of tomorrow. From MIT-...

Minutia Men Celebrity Interview on Radio Misfits

152 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
Rick Kaempfer and David Stern (Chicago publishers at Eckhartz Press) interview celebrities every week.  As the name “Minutia Men” implies, the interviews often delve into lesser-known details of we...

Hindsight

41 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
They're history’s most famous and infamous people. You’ve heard of them, but now it’s time you hear from them.

Grim Tide: Hunting The Long Island Serial Killer

11 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 77 ratings
Senior correspondent Laura Ingle hosts this multi-part Fox Nation Audio podcast that examines the unsolved murder mystery of the more than ten people, many of them sex workers, found on Long Island...

Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers

74 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Want to use your job to tackle climate change? Today there are more opportunities across industries to find a job and have impact. Join Climate Corps network manager Yesh Pavlik Slenk for candid co...

The Computer Room

86 episodes - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
A podcast about our lives online.

Beyond the Breakers

202 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
Beyond The Breakers is a podcast about shipwrecks, loss, and lessons learned from maritime disasters. 

COMMONS

261 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 69 ratings
COMMONS is a documentary podcast that proves Canada is anything but boring. Each season, host Arshy Mann guides you through the country’s dark underbelly, bringing you stories about crime, corrupt...

6 Degrees of John Keel

151 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
High Strangeness surrounds the world, cropping up here and there, imbuing ordinary reality with weirdness and dunking normal people into strangeness and wonder. Follow us as we explore a reality t...

The Trail Ahead

60 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Join athletes and environmental advocates Faith E. Briggs and Addie Thompson as they dig into conversations at the intersection of race, environment, history and culture. They talk to thought-leade...

Trump Mafia

46 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 64 ratings
The question is simple, will the 45th President of the United States end up in jail when he leaves office. The story to understand is how did we get here? Donald Trump's administration has been fi...

Field Recordings

498 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratings
A podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields).

The Original Deadtime Stories

188 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratings
The Original Deadtime Stories: bringing murderous tales to life in the fashion of a modern day radio drama since June 2018. Created by writer, researcher, and true crime junkie Schuyler Fastenau.

Not Your Little Lady

128 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
Not Your Little Lady is a podcast featuring women living outside of the South's socially accepted norms. Listen and relate as we laugh, cry and share stories about facing obstacles and how it feels...

You Look Like Me

14 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
Donor conceived journalist, Louise McLoughlin, delves deeper into the secrets, discoveries, and lives of donor conceived people while trying to find the man who, presumably, looks like her.

Home Base Nation

115 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings
Home Base Nation brings you discussions on thriving beyond surviving, and conversations with the civilian and military leaders of a grateful nation, who have been listening to our veterans and mili...

Militantly Mixed: Mixed Race Podcast

262 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Welcome to Militantly Mixed, the fearless podcast exploring race and identity from the Mixed-Race perspective. Join irreverently insightful host, Sharmane Fury, on a journey of self-discovery, empo...

My Comic Shop History

116 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
For nearly a decade, host Anthony Desiato explored the culture, business, and fandom of the comics retail industry on this podcast series. In 2015, New York’s Alternate Realities closed after 23 ye...

Bitches and Murders

89 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 49 ratings
True crime podcast hosted by research tech Sierra and PhD in forensic psych Morgann

Life Whispers Podcast

187 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Life Whispers shares the inspiring stories of people just like you and me. Stories from those who have overcome a struggle, are finding the courage to start a new business, have impacted someone's ...

The Mo Show

186 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Providing a front-row seat to life and cutlure in modern-day Saudi Arabia, whilst shedding light on the progression and accomplishments of the country and region told by those on the ground who sh...