DVD from USA on a Mac in germany!

Hi everybody!
I have a MacBook Pro (os x lion), i bought it 4 moths ago. I've just realized, that my mac cannot read DVD from USA. So my question, is there way to change this so that my mac can read every formate? If yes how?
Thank you all

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