My iPad keeps saying storage almost full and device full

It only does it on my movies and won't play them some times at the moment it keeps pausing

Movies take a huge amount of storage space.
Check Settings > General > Usage
Make sure you have at least 15% or so of your iPad's storage space available.  If you don't, you will see big things you can delete from that Usage display.

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