HT204370 I had all my iTunes movies on an external hard drive and it has recently crashed... is there some way I can re-download them off iTunes ?!

*I have tried a few ways shown on iTunes help sites like.. going into HD Movies and going through all these diffent tabs.
*I bought all my movies before iCloud allowed to store movies.
I was wondering if there was anyway you can re-download them from my iTunes account mainly.. I tried going into the recipts but it didn't work obviously
PLEASE SOMEONE SAY I CAN GET THEM AGAIN!!! SO MANY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS MOVIES I CANT FIND NOW !!

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You can only currently redownload movies if you are in the US.

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Sept. 2010, Consolidate selected content - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2589812 and April 2014, https://discussions.apple.com/message/25414357
"...selected the new tracks directly in iTunes, Control-clicked on the selection, and saw that now you can consolidate selected items." - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090919000326840
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If you add tracks in bunches to iTunes and want them to go to different media folders you will need to either add them by holding down the option key while dragging if the desired media folder is not the one set in preferences, or by changing the media folder in preferences. Changing media folder preferences only applies to new files added, not old ones.
Okay, I am going to stop typing because you might just reply to me, "Oh, okay, forget it," and I don't need the exercise.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391

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I'm at work at the moment, but will be back home in about 10 hours, so I can be more specific about folders / files names.
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I believe this question can be answered by the information in the following article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Access all your music anytime, anywhere with iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph12492
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