Movie title help me please?

So we watched this movie in history last year and I can't remember what it was called. It's a more abstract movie with Morgan Freeman. It about this little boy who lives in Africa but he is English and he dad dies and then his mom dies so he goes to live with this old man and I can't remember if the old man dies or not but anyway he's sent away from this old man. Then he goes to an African village where he picks up boxing and instead of being an adorable little boy he's now a sweaty thirteen year old. Morgan freeman was his coach. Then a whole bunch of stuff happens that I can't remember but some white men come to the village and I think they want something from the village people. Then the boy gets all the village people to start singing and Morgan Freeman dies. Then the boy goes to a fancy school.

It's really bugging me that I can't remember the name of it.