Opening Unix executable documents on my Mac

I have a new iMac os v 10.6. I recently received some documents on a CD that has an icon indicating it is a UNIX executable file. (black icon with green letters in the top right that says 'exec'. Is there a way I can open these documents on my Mac?

i did steps as you wrote but it apparently doesn't do any change. When I opened with terminal this is what's written: " -bash: /Users/jesseharwig/Downloads/Folx/Maison.De.Himiko.avi.006: cannot execute binary file"
when I followed your step it was saying something like this: No such file or directory
Here's the situation, these files are .avi videos (as it's written in name&extension field). When i click 'get info' it shows that in the general info the kind of the video is Unix Executable File (black square box with neon green 'exec' writing on the left top corner of the square) and 136.4 MB in size.

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