Movies shared via iPhoto on iCloud don't play

First of all I find it quite difficult to share (selfmade) videos wirelessly between my Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac). But there's an option to make a 'report' in iPhoto that can be shared with others via iCloud. But there seems a problem with videos. When opening the iCloud hyperlink they do show up but when opened most of them don't play. Earlier I got an error message but when I tried again they just don't play and I end up with a black screen. I made the movies on the iPhone so I guess this should work ... Quite dissapointing ...

Purchased apps, movies, etc. do not count toward you maximum icloud storage.  Movies (from Apple) are stored on Apple's servers and you can download them to watch, but technically it's not in icloud, just the servers Apple uses to store them.

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