Top 35 Documentaries in France

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Rank

Position in the Top 35, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in France. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in France, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in France. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank	Audience	Audience size	Country share	Avg age	Female share	Subtype
1	POV (TV series)	1.9M	20.3%	35.1	44.1%	Documentary
2	Yves Saint Laurent (film)	1.7M	12.0%	46.0	79.2%	Documentary
3	Zone Interdite (TV program)	212k	98.4%	38.8	55.2%	Documentary
4	Vice (TV series)	169k	5.6%	47.9	38.9%	Documentary
5	Man on Wire	80k	24.4%	38.9	67.2%	Documentary
6	Deadly Women	77k	22.7%	41.1	87.8%	Documentary
7	Walking with Dinosaurs	48k	4.6%	39.0	54.6%	Documentary
8	Bowling for Columbine	39k	7.6%	38.9	57.3%	Documentary
9	FRONTLINE	39k	0.5%	33.2	0.0%	Documentary
10	The Last Waltz	17k	3.6%	52.8	29.7%	Documentary
11	Pumping Iron	17k	1.4%	40.4	54.6%	Documentary
12	March of the Penguins	13k	4.4%	41.3	63.8%	Documentary
13	The Blue Planet	12k	4.0%	43.8	53.5%	Documentary
14	Restrepo (film)	8.1k	0.6%	44.5	0.0%	Documentary
15	The Thin Blue Line (1988 film)	7k	1.3%	39.1	44.1%	Documentary
16	Oddities (TV series)	4.1k	0.6%	32.0	62.5%	Documentary
17	Roadkill (Internet show)	4k	0.7%	24.2	46.8%	Documentary
18	Blue Planet	4k	0.9%	34.9	100.0%	Documentary
19	Finding Your Roots	2.8k	0.3%	34.2	47.2%	Documentary
20	The Original Kings of Comedy	2.4k	0.3%	39.2	46.5%	Documentary
21	Frozen Planet	2k	0.8%	44.4	51.4%	Documentary
22	American Experience	1.2k	0.3%	52.8	49.7%	Documentary
23	The Story of Stuff	1k	0.8%	37.2	56.5%	Documentary
24	Inside Edition	717	0.1%	34.5	63.5%	Documentary
25	A Football Life	701	0.7%	28.8	0.0%	Documentary

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 35 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across France and ranks each documentary by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest documentary in France?

POV (TV series) currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.9M people in France.

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