How to take the movies off of iPhoto and move them to my external hard drive

My hard drive in the computer is dying. I am using time machine to back up everything to my external hard drive. However, I am not sure it will take the movies from my iphoto.
1. When I try and export my movies from Iphoto to my external hard drive it only allows me to export as jpeg not .mov
2. When i just drag them the whole movies is not there.
I really need help to do this asap as my computer keeps freezing and clicking now more often.
Thank you

To export a movie you must export it as kind is original otherwise you get the single frame JPEG preview
and you should backup the entire iphoto library by dragging it intact as a single entity to a hard drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
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