How do I move my movies from iTunes to a portable drive in oder to free up disk space?

I have less than 10% of disk space free and often receive a message that my strat up disk is nearly full.  I therefore want to free up space by moving my movies to a portable drive.  How?  I want to keep the movies on my iPad, though.

Patti23 wrote:
How do I move purchased movies from itunes to the icloud? 
Delete them from the local computer.  Nothing gets moved.  If the content was purchased from iTunes it should be available for download again in the future.
Patti23 wrote:
I want to keep them on the ipad they have been moved to.
If the device is synced with iTunes on the computer and the content is deleted from iTunes it will also be removed from the device.
Realistically, if you want to keep the content, keep it stored locally.  Purchase an external drive to store the content on.  Keep in mind that iOS devices are NOT backup devices, they merely mirror the content in the iTunes library on the computer.

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