A moving documentary featuring rare footage and perceptive analysis, "Storm under the Sun" revisits a dark page in socialist China that would become symptomatic of all political persecutions in Mao's years. Hu Feng, a courageous literary critic from the 1930s, was classified as the head of an anti-Communist clique in the 1950s; he and his friends were arrested and imprisoned--many of them for decades--without due legal procedures. Louisa Wei deserves credit for providing us with a clear historical perspective and vivid eyewitness accounts on this still sensitive subject, and her skillful integration of historical footage (e.g., a smiling Mao hitting at a punch bag), interviews with survivors (e.g., Jia Zhifang), and animated sequences made this documentary a fascinating narrative as well as an effective audiovisual aid in teaching Mao's China in a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, political science and literature.