Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist and Afghanistan War military veteran, and Elliot, an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline.
On Sacred Ground is a 2022 American drama film written by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell and William Mapother, directed by Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell, and starring William Mapother, Amy Smart, David Arquette, Frances Fisher, Kerry Knuppe and Mariel Hemingway. Based on true events, the film is a dramatization of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
