I need space on my hard drive, how can i delete movies permanently?

My computer storage is completely full. I checked what is taking up the most space, and it came down to movies. They take up about  50 GB of my storage, and they are all movies I haven't watched in years! I don't want/need these movies anymore, but the only option I've been finding is to "hide" the purchases. That doesn't do anything for me though, because it's not taking away any of the storage!! I need to find a way to delete them off my computer to free up a ton of space. How can I do that?

Did you try to right click on a movie in your iTunes library/My movies and click on "delete"? A message will pop up to ask you if you want to remove the movie from your iTunes library permanently, click "yes" to move the movie file to the trash to delete it later.

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