Lost my entire movie collection on itunes?

alright so i don't know how this happened but all my movies that i legitimately bought off of itunes are gone. They still show up in my library, but whenever i try to watch them, it says this ( with the royal tenenbaums for example.)
The movie “The Royal Tenenbaums” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?'
and no matter how hard i look I can't find any of my movie files. anyone know how to fix this?

jzhessler wrote:
and jim, your telling me that i lost all the movies that i paid for?
Unless you can find them. My movies are in my user account/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Movies.
The link I provided earlier is Apple's policy on redownloads. You may be able to talk the iTunes Store Support Team into allowing another download, but I've heard that each download results in an Apple payment to the content providers. However, it can't hurt to ask. Email them at this link and explain what happened, list the titles missing and grovel a bit. I hope you get lucky.

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