Recovering a corrupt file

I shall begin by explaining i was stupid to ignore the "you have 8 minutes remaining" message.
I thought i had saved my imovie project just before my battery cut out. I opened up Imovie to discover i had not saved it and anything i recorded was gone!
I thought i had lost what i had recorded on on movie, i looked into my trash can and found an 8.63gb .mov clip sitting there.
I took it out of the bin and tried to open it, and received the error message, "this file is not a movie file".
Is there anyway to retrieve this file?
I would really appreciate it.
Ben

Hi OliNeal,
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