How do i store my movies on external drive and then stream to apple tv

ok so I buy a movie and it is in my itunes library and stored on my computer.
How do I move it to a dedicated external drive (that is just for our movies), and still access it easily so I can stream to apple tv?
If I just plug the external drive in to my computer, will my itunes library automatically "go get it" from the external drive? Or what do I have to do so it will do that?
Seems like it would be simpler if the apple tv just had storage so when you turned it on, you could see your catalog just like on netflix, etc..
Thanks...

Using an external drive for your library is usually just a case of setting your iTunes preferences to use the external drive. However using the drive just for movies complicates things a little.
When you buy a movie it will be placed on your internal drive, select the movie in iTunes and ctrl click. Choose show in finder from the contextual menu that appears.
Now drag the original file from the finder to the location you have chosen for movies on the external drive. Go back to iTunes and delete the movie from the iTunes window, choose move to trash when prompted. This will delete the entry in iTunes and the original from your internal drive.
Now drag the copy you have just made on your external drive in the finder onto the iTunes window whilst holding down the option key, this will add it to iTunes without copying it back to your internal drive.

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