How do i delete multiple files of the same video in the "all videos" folder?

i am running out of space on my computer so i went to the "all movies" folder to see if there were items there i could get rid of.  when i went i discovered that there were many instances of the same video being there as many as 4 or 5 times.  why is that?  i tried to delete them but they still remain.  how can i single it down to just one file?

try the script (version 3) in this post,
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