How do i find out what is backed up to my internal hard drive

i backed up all my movies to an external hard drive to save space on my macbook air but when looking at the storeage space i see that there is still alot of space taken up from backups.  I have time machine set up so my macbook backups to my external hard drive, i need to see what all is backed up on my internal hard drive so i can edit what is important and what isnt.  So how do i find out what is backed up on my internal hard drive.

Information from these articles may be helpful.
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html

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