Place Personal MPG Movies to iCloud/Photos/Movies?

Hi,

For the longest time I have been wanting to save my movies to a cloud based service for safe keeping, but these are all personal movies that were converted to digital years back from film, 8mm and more. Again these are all personal so I don't want to upload to YouTube just to mark them as private.

So my question is, moving forward if I drag and drop these movie files into Photos can they be uploaded and stored to the iCloud for later Use or playback?

If Photos isn't the correct way, would it be iMovies? Again I just want them in a place that at any point I could play them back on my home TVs through Apple TV if needed since I don't have a household DVD and those DVD's were home written so the likely hood of the DVD media giving out is high.

For now they are saved to a external drive but would like an easier way to have them available for playing or pulling into iMove for editing if I wanted to redo them one time over to a more current movie process state.

Please advise your suggestions and proposed process that I should keep. And I don't want a third party (i.e. Vimeo) process since its not in the apple eco system. I'm already paying for cloud services and storage with my movies with apple. So if there is a way with iCloud that would be the process I'm looking for.

Thanks