My iTunes movie won't play on my iPhone.

I have three movies that we're purchased through my iTunes account, but they're not actually downloaded on my phone, they're over iCloud, so they should play over wifi. I went to watch one of them, and at first the movie window popped up and then went back to my page of movies. I tried it again today and it does the same thing, but a little window pops up and says "Operation Stopped. The server is not configured correctly." Any ideas?

Hi hannah4576,
I'm sorry to hear you are having movie issues with your iPhone. If you are having playback issues on your iPhone for movies purchased on your iTunes Store account elsewhere, you may want to make sure you are redownloading your previous purchase to your iPhone as outlined in the following article:
Download past purchases - Apple Support
If you are still getting some sort of server error, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in this article helpful:
Can't connect to the iTunes Store - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

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