Lost movies and want to recover them.

Several months ago my laptop completely crashed. Hard drive had to be completely replaced. Now that I have it back I reinstalled iTunes on it and recovered my music, TV shows, and apps for my iPod Touch 4th generation. But the spot that is annoying me is that I lost all the movies that I did not have on my iPod before the computer crashed. So far as I've found I can not recover them but I was hoping someone might have a suggestion. I've tried the purchased area in the iTunes Store but it doesn't offer the movie section. Please if anyone has any ideas I would be most grateful to hear them. Also for some reason my laptop will not download the latest update for my iPod Touch.

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