Children of Mars

{{short description|1943 film}}

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| director = Frank Donovan

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| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

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| country = United States

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Children of Mars is a 1943 American short documentary film about child delinquency directed by Frank Donovan. It was part of RKO Pictures' documentary series This Is America.{{Cite journal| doi = 10.2307/1225493| issn = 0009-7101| volume = 12| issue = 2| pages = 22–38| last = Barsam| first = Richard Meran| title = "This Is America": Documentaries for Theaters, 1942-1951| journal = Cinema Journal| accessdate = 2021-04-10| date = 1973| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225493| jstor = 1225493| url-access = subscription}} It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300189/Children-of-Mars/details|title=Children of Mars|access-date=November 23, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015113612/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300189/Children-of-Mars/details|archive-date=October 15, 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|url-status=dead}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 29, 2019 |work=The Oscars|date=October 5, 2014 }}