Madonna: Truth or Dare

Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) is the backstage concert documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Alek Keshishian trailed the pop star across five months of her Blond Ambition tour, from prayer circles before each show to the chaos that followed once the lights went down.

The off-stage footage runs in black and white; the performances burst into glossy MTV color. Madonna faces down Toronto police threatening arrest over "indecency," visits her mother's grave in Detroit, drills her dancers like a drill sergeant, then plays Truth or Dare with them in a hotel bed. Warren Beatty, Sandra Bernhard and a young Antonio Banderas wander through it all.

What Keshishian captured isn't a promo reel but a study of a woman who runs every room she walks into. The tagline says it best: the ultimate dare is to tell the truth. Stream Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) online on iFILM.