Documentary backdrop image for The Bright Side: Toilets Save Lives (2019)

PLUS

20192 minTV-PGdoc-short

public-health food-security sustainability global-governance

PLUS

The Bright Side: Toilets Save Lives

20192 minTV-PGdoc-short

It's easy to take a toilet for granted. But about one billion people in the world population live without them. In doing so, it can really help save lives.

public-health food-security sustainability global-governance

Genres

The Bright Side: Toilets Save Lives

2019• 2 minTV-PG

Synopsis

It's easy to take a toilet for granted. But about one billion people in the world population live without them. In doing so, it can really help save lives.

Synopsis

It's easy to take a toilet for granted. But about one billion people in the world population live without them. In doing so, it can really help save lives.

Comments

What are people saying?

Play More Health on PLUS

Play More Environment on PLUS

Play More Like This

Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History (2019)

Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people worldwide than combat during World War One.

Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

Fighting For Allergy-Free Food - Full Movie (2021)

Fighting For Allergy-Free Food - Full Movie

Food allergies and intolerances are on the rise globally, prompting experts to examine their origins and potential solutions for affected individuals.

Fighting For Allergy-Free Food - Full Movie

The Secret Life Of Plants (Nature Documentary) | Wild America (2021)

The Secret Life Of Plants (Nature Documentary) | Wild America

Plants play a crucial role in ecosystems, yet they are often overlooked and mistreated, highlighting their remarkable capabilities and importance.

The Secret Life Of Plants (Nature Documentary) | Wild America

Travelers of the Year 2013 (2014)

Travelers of the Year 2013

Traveler magazine honors inspiring individuals like Shannon O'Donnell and Alison Wright, who enhance communities through meaningful travel initiatives.

Travelers of the Year 2013

Africa's Last Herders: A Fight for Survival in Uganda (2026)

Africa's Last Herders: A Fight for Survival in Uganda

In the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda, the Karamajong people face existential threats to their nomadic cattle herding lifestyle due to climate change and political neglect.

Africa's Last Herders: A Fight for Survival in Uganda

Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (2022)

Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

In the winter of 1778 at Valley Forge, the Continental Army faced starvation while executing the Grand Forage, highlighting the resilience of soldiers and leaders like George Washington.

Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

Canada's Reindeer (2023)

Canada's Reindeer

In 1935, a herd of 2,700 reindeer was transported from Alaska to northern Canada to enhance the economic conditions of the Inuit population through herding.

Canada's Reindeer

Zika: the race against time to contain the virus that shrinks babies' brains (2025)

Zika: the race against time to contain the virus that shrinks babies' brains

Zika virus, which emerged in Brazil and is linked to severe fetal brain damage, prompts urgent scientific efforts to understand its origins and potential mutations.

Zika: the race against time to contain the virus that shrinks babies' brains

How a Composting Toilet Actually Works in a DIY Camper? (2026)

How a Composting Toilet Actually Works in a DIY Camper?

In a deluxe 42ft trackside RV, an IndyCar champion showcases the functionality of a waterless composting toilet while exploring life on the road.

How a Composting Toilet Actually Works in a DIY Camper?

The God Cells: Fetal Stem Cell Controversy (2022)

The God Cells: Fetal Stem Cell Controversy

Fetal stem cell therapy, a highly controversial treatment harvested from abortions, faces significant regulatory and religious obstacles in the United States, prompting patients to seek alternatives abroad.

The God Cells: Fetal Stem Cell Controversy

The Long Walk |🏜️Road Trip (2024)

The Long Walk |🏜️Road Trip

A young Norwegian woman and her two Ju/’hoansi bushmen friends traverse 1,490 kilometers across Namibia's wilderness to reach the ocean, exploring themes of survival and self-discovery.

The Long Walk |🏜️Road Trip

The West Coast (2025)

The West Coast

In Scotland's West Coast, Martin Compston and Phil MacHugh confront their fears through climbing, jumping, and sampling local cuisine amidst the stunning outdoors.

Play More Films About public-health

Boris Johnson: PM's future on knife-edge as MPs call for resignation (2022)

Boris Johnson: PM's future on knife-edge as MPs call for resignation

2022

Tanks ran over us three to four times. gaza israel palestine (2024)

Tanks ran over us three to four times. gaza israel palestine

2024

How Covid-19 changed hospital healthcare (2021)

How Covid-19 changed hospital healthcare

2021

Inside America's Solitary Confinement For Kids (2014)

Inside America's Solitary Confinement For Kids

2014

'It is really, really bad...and it will only get worse' (2020)

'It is really, really bad...and it will only get worse'

2020

Captain Sir Tom Moore dies aged 100 (2021)

Captain Sir Tom Moore dies aged 100

2021

California Is Trying To Fight A Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreak (HBO) (2017)

California Is Trying To Fight A Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreak (HBO)

2017

Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (2021)

Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

2021

Play More Films About food-security

Exploring Naples Before the Ship Sails (2025)

Exploring Naples Before the Ship Sails

2025

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger (2025)

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger

2025

Australia, Africa and the way the Himba live in Namibia (2020)

Australia, Africa and the way the Himba live in Namibia

2020

For Bourbon Fans, Kentucky Is the Holy Land (2014)

For Bourbon Fans, Kentucky Is the Holy Land

2014

California's Burning, and Farmworkers Are Still in the Fields (2019)

California's Burning, and Farmworkers Are Still in the Fields

2019

How Sugary Diets Are Destroying Our Immune Systems (2014)

How Sugary Diets Are Destroying Our Immune Systems

2014

Biofuel Backlash - World (2008)

Biofuel Backlash - World

2008

Camels and Dromedaries (2016)

Camels and Dromedaries

2016

Play More Films About sustainability

40 Degrees South - Episode 4 (2023)

40 Degrees South - Episode 4

2023

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger (2025)

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger

2025

Working the land for our climate - Healthy soil, healthy world (2022)

Working the land for our climate - Healthy soil, healthy world

2022

How to save humankind (according to James Lovelock) (2019)

How to save humankind (according to James Lovelock)

2019

A vegan lifestyle: Is it the future? (2023)

A vegan lifestyle: Is it the future?

2023

Can Norway Shake its Addiction to Oil? (2016)

Can Norway Shake its Addiction to Oil?

2016

Blood Cobalt: The Truth of Congo's Cobalt Industry (2022)

Blood Cobalt: The Truth of Congo's Cobalt Industry

2022

Canary Islands - Part 4 (2018)

Canary Islands - Part 4

2018

Play More Films in Health

Prescriptions For Heroin? 'Naloxone Man' George Charlton Explains shorts (2024)

Prescriptions For Heroin? 'Naloxone Man' George Charlton Explains shorts

2024

Gaza 101: Emergency Rescue (2024)

Gaza 101: Emergency Rescue

2024

Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows (2024)

Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows

2024

Tutwiler (2019)

Tutwiler

2019

Do surgeons wear socks in theatre? GeordieHospital (2024)

Do surgeons wear socks in theatre? GeordieHospital

2024

Egypt's Sex-Ed Revolution (2025)

Egypt's Sex-Ed Revolution

2025

Right to Fail (2019)

Right to Fail

2019

The Fish on My Plate (2017)

The Fish on My Plate

2017

Play More Films in Environment

Climate Change (2025)

Climate Change

2025

WorldWildlifeDay The shocking investigation into the global trade of Rhino horns. (2023)

WorldWildlifeDay The shocking investigation into the global trade of Rhino horns.

2023

Does Royal Caribbean Use Flags of Convenience? shorts (2024)

Does Royal Caribbean Use Flags of Convenience? shorts

2024

The Fish on My Plate (2017)

The Fish on My Plate

2017

Is economic growth good for the climate? (2024)

Is economic growth good for the climate?

2024

Rebellion (2022)

Rebellion

2022

Campaign Against the Climate (2022)

Campaign Against the Climate

2022

In Fiji, the climate crisis is no longer off in the future - it's a daily reality. (2023)

In Fiji, the climate crisis is no longer off in the future - it's a daily reality.

2023

Explore The Bright Side: Toilets Save Lives

Where else to watch

Palliative (2022)

Palliative

Dr. Nadia Tremonti, a pediatric palliative care specialist at Children's Hospital of Michigan, navigates end-of-life care for children and their families.

Salla - Selling the Silence (2011)

Salla - Selling the Silence

2011•1h10m•★6.5

In Salla, Lapland, Jyrki Kuukkanen and his family navigate the challenges of running a small business amid changing societal values and environmental concerns.

Salla - Selling the Silence

Fishing Boats (1958)

Fishing Boats

1958•11m•★6.4

Sicilian fishermen navigate the unpredictable sea and its tempests.

Shipping Home (2016)

Shipping Home

A year-long project results in Asheville, North Carolina's first shipping container home as Ryan and Brook manage family life and their building plans.

Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak (2023)

Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak

2023•1h25m•★7.2

85,000 baby teeth collected in Missouri reveal the environmental impact of over 100 nuclear explosions and the presence of Strontium 90 in the population.

Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak

Crows - Nature Is Watching Us (2023)

Crows - Nature Is Watching Us

2023•1h33m•★8.0

Crows watch us closely, revealing nature's intricate bond with humanity.

Crows - Nature Is Watching Us

Browse more like this

Travelers of the Year 2013 (2014)

Travelers of the Year 2013

Traveler magazine honors inspiring individuals like Shannon O'Donnell and Alison Wright, who enhance communities through meaningful travel initiatives.

Travelers of the Year 2013

No digital watch option in your country

Africa's Last Herders: A Fight for Survival in Uganda (2026)

Africa's Last Herders: A Fight for Survival in Uganda

In the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda, the Karamajong people face existential threats to their nomadic cattle herding lifestyle due to climate change and political neglect.

Africa's Last Herders: A Fight for Survival in Uganda

No digital watch option in your country

Canada's Reindeer (2023)

Canada's Reindeer

In 1935, a herd of 2,700 reindeer was transported from Alaska to northern Canada to enhance the economic conditions of the Inuit population through herding.

Canada's Reindeer

No digital watch option in your country

The Long Walk |🏜️Road Trip (2024)

The Long Walk |🏜️Road Trip

A young Norwegian woman and her two Ju/’hoansi bushmen friends traverse 1,490 kilometers across Namibia's wilderness to reach the ocean, exploring themes of survival and self-discovery.

The Long Walk |🏜️Road Trip

No digital watch option in your country

The West Coast (2025)

The West Coast

In Scotland's West Coast, Martin Compston and Phil MacHugh confront their fears through climbing, jumping, and sampling local cuisine amidst the stunning outdoors.

No digital watch option in your country

The Human Experiment (2013)

The Human Experiment

2013•1h31m•★6.5

More than 80,000 chemicals are used in consumer products in the United States, many of which are linked to serious health issues.

The Human Experiment

The Ark (2020)

The Ark

Zhang Xiuhua's family navigates her illness and the economic fallout of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, revealing tensions and struggles in stark black-and-white.

Sewermen (2019)

Sewermen

2019•1h•★9.0

United Utilities maintains an extensive network of sewer systems across the UK, ensuring clean water and sanitation for public health.

Ang Aroma ng Darang (2024)

Ang Aroma ng Darang

In rural areas of the Philippines, albularyos and hilot provide vital health services, addressing the limitations of conventional medicine amid rising healthcare costs.

Ang Aroma ng Darang

Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007)

Earth: The Power of the Planet

2007•4h55m•★8.0

4.6 billion years of geological history shape the Earth into the diverse planet it is today, as explained by Dr Iain Stewart.

Earth: The Power of the Planet

HU (2012)

HU

2012•1h18m•★4.3

A symmetrically divided building in Rio de Janeiro represents the stark contrast between the University Hospital of UFRJ and a dilapidated ruin.