ITunes lists movie files as audio only?

I've had a large Movie library in my iTunes for years, and have recently had difficulty playing some older .mov files in the latest iTunes. Nobody seems to know the reason or a workaround aside from using a different video player outside of iTunes.
But now I've noticed that while scrolling through my AUDIO files in iTunes, the names of files that I know for a fact were previously MOVIES...ie "Madonna's tribute to Michael Jackson MTV awards live." That was a video file that used to play in my iTunes, but I curiously now find it in my MUSIC section and when I get the info about the file, it says it's an ACC audio file with no video info listed. I go to OPTIONS in the info window to try to change the media type to VIDEO, and that entire option is greyed out allowing no change to the presselected MUSIC category.
I've found about 100 of these files that should have video content.
Anyone have any ideas as to what has happened or what I can do to retreive prior video content?
I certainly appreciate any input,
Chad

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