Documentary podcasts starting with Q–S
Reported, documentary-style storytelling about real people and events.
All Documentary podcasts
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Question Everything
Question Everything is a weekly investigation into how the truth gets buried, distorted, and denied -- and the ways people are fighting to…
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Radio Diaries
First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio…
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Radiolab
Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl…
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Reaching Out
Hailed by Ira Glass as the “best new show I’ve heard in years,” and winner of the Audio Memoir Award of the Tribeca Film Festival…
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Real Life Ghost Stories
Real Life Ghost Stories is a podcast dedicated to real life paranormal stories. Every Sunday we deep dive into a famous paranormal case or…
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The REAL RPG Years: A JRPG Podcast
The RPG Years is your weekly show covering all things video role-playing games (RPGs), both past and present. From Dungeon Explorer to the…
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The Reincarnation Records
If The Telepathy Tapes deconstructed what you believe about consciousness, The Reincarnation Records may shatter it. Does consciousness…
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The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast
Our tennis podcast has six grand slams—does yours? Join host Rennae Stubbs as she talks to her friends and favorite tennis players about…
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Revisiting The Gay Life
Revisiting The Gay Life explores a pivotal moment in LGBTQ history — from the rise of Harvey Milk to the early days of AIDS — through the…
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The Rolling Stones Official Podcast - Speaking in Tongues
Featuring exclusive new interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and producer Andrew Watt - Norah Jones presents Speaking in…
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THE RYAN FILES
Secrets. Mysteries. Hidden truths. The Ryan Files dives into forgotten history, ancient mysteries, and government cover-ups—unraveling the…
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SAS: The Shadow War
For decades, the SAS has operated beyond public view, its missions shaped by secrecy and its reputation burnished by the rare moments when…
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Scamanda
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.But Amanda is…
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Scene on Radio
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…
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The Secret World of Roald Dahl
You know Roald Dahl as the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? "The Secret World of…
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Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs
Secrets and Spies sits at the intersection of intelligence, covert action, real-world espionage, and broader geopolitics in a way that is…
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Secrets We Keep
Each season, Secrets We Keep investigates a different Australian secret. CLAREMONT: The Trial (Season 13): The shocking disappearance and…
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Serialously with Annie Elise
Serialously is hosted by Annie Elise, best known for her true-crime YouTube channel “10 to Life” with over 1.5M subscribers. Annie created…
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Shell Game
A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 2 tells the story of enterprise and…
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The Shrink Next Door
Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his…
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Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever
Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Mental_Floss) dives into the booming business of living forever—meeting the scientists, biopunks…
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Sleepy History
Explore history's most intriguing stories, people, places, events, and mysteries, delivered in a supremely calming atmosphere. If you…
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Slow Burn
Slow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present. Through archival tape…
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The Slow Newscast
The Slow Newscast from The Observer takes the news slowly. We investigate, and every week we focus on stories that really matter in the UK…
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Sold a Story
Sold a Story is an investigative podcast about how kids learn — what works in the classroom, the science behind those insights and why…
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Something Was Wrong
Something Was Wrong is an award-winning docuseries about survivors' discovery, trauma, and recovery from crime and abuse.
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Somewhere in the Skies
Somewhere in the Skies is a weekly podcast covering UFOs hosted by international best-selling author and television host, Ryan Sprague…
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Sound, Light & Frequency
Has the U.S. government been conducting a slow-drip UFO disclosure campaign through Hollywood movies and television for more than 70…
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The Speaker
Trailblazer. Lightning rod. First woman Speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi never intended to run for office — but in 1987, a twist of fate…
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Spicy Alien After Dark
We're gettin' weird.
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Stars of the Golden Age: An Old Hollywood Podcast
Welcome to Stars of the Golden Age, a podcast about Old Hollywood and the classic film era, where you can learn about the lives of legends…
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Stolen Lives True Crime
STOLEN LIVES is a podcast dedicated to spreading the stories of those who are forgotten. Those whose lives were stolen. The missing and…
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Stories from a Stranger
“Every stranger has a story.” This is what Hunter Prosper realized when he began posting man-on-the-street interviews with real-life…
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Strangers on a Bench
Have you ever walked past a mysterious stranger on a park bench and wondered about their lives? Tom Rosenthal (singer-songwriter by trade)…
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SuperHuman
SuperHuman is a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat docuseries that dives into the launch of what many have called the “Doping Olympics” - the…
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Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse
The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the…
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Swindled
A narrative true-crime podcast that uses immersive storytelling, archival audio, and cinematic sound design to explore the world of…
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Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale is a weekly true crime podcast covering the dark underworld of crime and the criminal justice system’s response to it. The…
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Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast
How terrifying would it be to fight an unknown enemy? One you don’t recognize and didn’t see coming? What if that enemy was coming from…