Since man first figured out how to put images on film, those same men have been focusing their cameras on sex. The medium of the movies is arguably the best overall document of how sexuality has been redefined over the course of the last century and it's a great subject for a documentary series. This past summer, a channel that knows a thing or two about sex in movies, The Independent Film Channel, aired a four-hour documentary on the subject called Indie Sex. Featuring interviews with several of the major players of the independent film world when it comes to sex, including everyone from John Waters to Peter Sarsgaard to Dita Von Teese, Indie Sex is a regularly fascinating if somewhat scattershot look at a subject that's almost too big for four hours - 100 years of lust, nudity, censorship, taboos, voyeurism, and good, old-fashioned s-e-x.

As you might imagine, Indie Sex is never boring, even if it does almost seem overwhelmed by the scope of its own subject matter. Take for example the first hour, "Censorship," which somehow tries to stuff in everything from early stag films to reaction to Last Tango in Paris to Madonna losing her Pepsi contract after "Like a Prayer." You could do a solid hour on the Hays Code alone, much less try and cover a century of censorship in America in 60 minutes and everyone seems to know it, which makes for rushed interviews, abrupt segues, and, too often, a subject being dropped just as its getting interesting. Like a lot of sexy movies, "Censorship" leaves you wanting more. And yet, some later hours feel too stretched out to fill their running time. The filmmakers would have been wiser not to stick to the one-subject-one-hour format. "Censorship" needed more than an hour but an exploration of teen sex in cinema probably could have been accomplished with less.

The DVD will give fans interested in Indie Sex more than they got on TV, including a director's cut of one of the more graphic hours of the show - "Taboos." Extended interviews, an extended stag film, and sex in cinema milestones are included on a second disc. What's clear from Indie Sex is that as times have changed, our natural obsession as a human being has remained essentially the same. Sex drives the world of film as much as anything and, even if it does feel like a subject a little too out-of-reach for the makers of Indie Sex, it's one worth exploring and makes for a riveting DVD.