HELP: iMovie doesn't recognize the videos I downloaded from iMessage

Okay, so...
I'm part of Student Council at my school and I need to make a video about kindness. So I video taped some kids in our school (teacher's permission, don't worry, not a child molester or whatever). I video taped them on my friend's iPhone 5 because she said that my iPhone 4S sucked -_-. She iMessaged me the videos, I received them and I added them on my desktop so I wouldn't lose track of them. I want to import them into iMovie so I can use these short clips for my presentation. if it matters, the format of the videos are .mov and I've tried importing them to iPhoto but, it was no use. it doesn't appear in iMovie. please, I need help ASAP!!!!!

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