Children of the Damned is a 1964 British black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Anton M. Leader, and starring Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris and Alfred Burke.

British psychologist Tom Lewellyn and geneticist David Neville are interested in Paul, a London boy whose mother Diana clearly hates the child and insists she was never touched by a man.

The children have demonstrated the capacity for telekinesis and construct a complex machine which uses sonic waves as a defensive weapon, which kills several government officials and soldiers.

The last sequence introduces a highly moral note – on earth the children have been taught only violence, which they now decline to use – and the film ends on a glumly pointed close-up of the screwdriver whose accidental fall launched the fatal bombardment.

Anton Leader's direction, serviceable enough in a TV fashion, pulls off tolerably effective moments when the mother of one of the boys walks straight into an oncoming car, and when a policeman is made to turn his gun on his colleague.

"[6] Howard Thompson in The New York Times wrote: "a dull, pretentious successor to that marvelous little chiller of several seasons ago, Village of the Damned.