Connect Apple TV to MBP without a router

Hello Apple TV experts, hope you are having a good day.
My sister is out in the woods in Virginia in her 5th wheel trailer. She has a nice TV/Stereo setup but only gets over the air TV. She has movies on her MacBook Pro and wants to watch on the TV. She has no internet connection nor router.
Can she put in an Apple TV and connect the MBP directly to it without have a network router? Or would she be better off with a hard wire solution?

Newer MBPs have HDMI ports.
What ATV generation do you have? What MBP do you have (year/model)? ATVs support Airplay, so using the ATV as an Airplay sink and MBP as Airplay client is still possible.
There are display port-ot-HDMI adapters as well.
Alley_Cat has covered iTunes DRM content, but you can still play non-DRM content via Airplay and HDMI/Component (depending on ATV model).
MBPs  usually have a combo analog/Digital Optical connection that can be hooked up to  a stereo for sound.

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