Time Bomb Y2K

Time Bomb Y2K is a 2023 American documentary film, directed by Marley McDonald and Brian Becker.

An all-archival film, Time Bomb Y2K explores the Year 2000 problem, and the ensuing mass hysteria to evade potential technological collapse or, at worst, a doomsday scenario.

[14] Critics highlighted the film's remarkable use of archival materials and its nostalgic yet prescient view of technological, cultural, and political crisis.

For Chris Vognar of Rolling Stone, "Time Bomb Y2K works mostly because it keeps a straight face, acknowledging that, even if a lot of the hysteria seems silly now, the anxiety was quite real back then," comparatively "a more innocent time, before the flowering of surveillance capitalism and the days of other countries using the internet to interfere in American elections.

"[15] With regards to the film's contemporary relevance, CNN's Brian Lowry noted that "Time Bomb Y2k still speaks to the excesses of that earlier period in a way that connects directly to the present, providing a taste of how media frenzies happen filtered through the 20th century's final freakout.