BC and AD are abbreviations for before Christ and Anno Domino mean before the Christ's birth after the Christ's birth
Standard DVDs. 1  Region 1: U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda. 2  Region 2: Japan, Europe (excluding Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), Greenland, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Egypt and the Middle East. 3  Region 3: Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Philips still makes a few DVD players in the USA/Canada that can be made region free. Their DVD players can convert between PAL and NTSC so they could play your DVD. It's very difficult to find BluRay players in the USA/Canada that are region free even if just for DVD.